Georges Cuvier showed that the life of the past was not necessarily the same as that of the present.
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- https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cuvier.html (ucmp.berkeley.edu)
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- https://www.nps.gov/articles/geologic-principles-organic-extinction.htm (nps.gov)
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