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Surface Quotes by Georges Cuvier
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
- Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds…
- It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the…
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