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William Daniel Conybeare
(7 Jun 1787 - 12 Aug 1857)
English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman.
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Science Quotes by William Daniel Conybeare (1)
Your admission of the late appearance of the great intellectual crown of the whole animal race [man] strikes me as perfectly fatal to the analogy of your system of a continually recurring series of identical terms.
— William Daniel Conybeare
Letter to Charles Lyell February 1841. In M.J.S. Rudwick, 'A Critique of Uniformitarian Geology: A Letter from W. D. Conybeare to Charles Lyell', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1967, 111, 282.
