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William Benjamin Carpenter 1813 - 1885
- occupation:
- Biologist, University administrator
- Nationality:
- English, British
- born in:
- Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Considered one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious, together with William Hamilton and Thomas Laycock.