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source PREFACE     Robert Grant left little iron-clad evidence that he was the radical, pro-Lamarckian thinker that in fact he was. Were it not for Charles Darwin’s brief passage describing Grant’s outburst as they were

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full text Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology (1830-1833) has been described as “perhaps the most important scientific textbook ever written” and was a major influence on Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. The first

At dawn on July 16, 1799, Humboldt and Bonpland had their first glimpse of the verdant mainland, bristling with palms, cacao trees, and all manner of exotic flora. The Pizarro anchored in port at nine A.M., forty-one days out of La Coruña.

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secondary webpage: marrow

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“Whenever I discovered something which was noteworthy,

I have felt it my duty to put down what I had discovered,

in order that it would become known to the educated world.”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Letter of June 12, 1716

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“Sharing knowledge is the the greatest of all callings.

There is nothing like it in the land".”

The Instruction of Dua-Khety

… to his son, as he entered scribe school c. 2000 BC, Egypt - Middle Kingdom

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