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de Vries, Hugo
[person]
Dutch botanist and geneticist, born in Haarlem, Holland (1848-1935). He is known for "rediscovering" Gregor Mendel's 1850s laws of heredity in the 1890s. Based in part on that rediscovery, he suggested the concept of genes, and developing a theory of evolution based on mutations.
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