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Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

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Edward Forbes
Age: 39 †
Born: 1815
Born: February 12
Died: 1854
Died: November 18
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