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No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ↗

— Richard Owen

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