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Curiosities of natural history (1857)
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"You will at once perceive," continued Professor Ichthyosaurus, "that the skull [indicating a human skull] before us belonged to some of the lower order of animals; the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have procured food."
Francis Trevelyan Buckland
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Born:
December 17, 1826
Died:
December 19, 1880
(aged 54)
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