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“It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.”

Quote by Alfred Wegener

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Alfred Wegener, born on November 1, 1880, was a German geophysicist, meteorologist, and astronomer. He is renowned for his proposal of the theory of continental drift. more

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