"The great age of the earth will appear……" — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
"The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known."
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and…
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