“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.”

—  Georges Cuvier

as quoted from "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth".

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French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832) 1769–1832

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