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Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

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Thomas Huxley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1825
Born: May 4
Died: 1895
Died: June 29
Anatomist
Anthropologist
Biologist
Carcinologist
Ichthyologist
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Naturalist
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Physiologist
Lexington
Kentucky
T. H. Huxley
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