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Edwin H. Colbert - The age of reptiles (1965)

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The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the year back through time the earth and its inhabitants seem to us less real and less substantial the more distantly they are removed from this age in which we live.

Edwin H. Colbert

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Edwin H. Colbert

Born: September 28, 1905
Died: November 15, 2001 (aged 96)
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