Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life

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Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life is a piece by Thomas Henry Huxley. The piece says merchants occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and not always satisfactory, process called taking stock, and that the man of science does well sometimes to imitate this procedure. The text says that nearly 40,000 species of animals and plants have been added to the Systema Naturae by paleontologic research.

The piece says paleontology is every day assuming a greater importance, and now requires to rest on a basis the firmness of which is thoroughly well assured. The piece says the evidence on which such conclusions are based is of two kinds, negative and positive. The piece says it would be extremely incorrect to suppose that the vertebral columns of the older Vertebrata are in any sense embryonic in their whole structure.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley was a Victorian biologist, comparative anatomist, educator, and prominent defender of evolutionary science. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, published in 1863, brought together essays comparing humans with other primates and considering fossil evidence.