naturalist

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The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had the wrong idea about the way evolution works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

I met Molly Hansen, the community’s unofficial historian and naturalist, in her low-ceilinged office near the village center.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

"It's a very endangered species around the world," says Miskelly, who served for six years as a trustee for the zoo - famously founded by naturalist Gerald Durrell.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Roughly three centuries ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to catalog and name every living organism he could find.

From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025

Wallace, a naturalist, was more interested in the palm trees outside the caves than the people who had lived inside them.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann