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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
Mark McMenamin

Bio: Mark A. S. McMenamin is an American paleontologist and professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College. He has contributed to the study of the Cambrian explosion and the Ediacaran biota.
Known for:
- The garden of Ediacara
- Hypersea: Life on Land
- The emergence of animals
- Science 101: Geology