"Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time."

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Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.10

Edward Forbes

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