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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

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Richard Owen
Age: 88 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 20
Died: 1892
Died: December 18
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