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Four Billion Years of Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Heinz Tobien
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Palaeontology is an historical science comparable to prehistory, archeology, and history, in that it deals with living beings from past times. The documents needed to write the history of life are the remains of organisms contained in geological deposits from the last four billion years. They are called “fossils.”

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Diogenes , Volume 39 , Issue 155 , September 1991 , pp. 67 - 109
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Copyright © 1991 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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