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Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Age: 80 †
Born: 1707
Born: September 7
Died: 1788
Died: April 16
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