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Life's Dawn on Earth

Name: Life's Dawn on Earth
Author: Sir John William Dawson

by Sir John William Dawson

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Life's Dawn on Earth Being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MWS, Tom Cosmas, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2015-12-25

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Life -- Origin Paleontology -- Precambrian

About the author

Sir John William Dawson

1820–1899

A pioneering Canadian geologist and educator, he helped shape McGill University into a major institution while writing widely on geology, paleontology, and the history of life. He was also known for forcefully challenging Darwinian evolution, bringing science and faith into public debate in the 19th century.

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