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Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was suffic...

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Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

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Principles of Geology

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes s...

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Charles Lyell

Lawyer

Born: 1797-11-14

Died: 1875-02-22

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularized James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism. Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.More