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Cuvier

Georges Cuvier, an early 19th century French naturalist who could reconstruct what an animal looked like from a few bones.

The Art of Money Getting, P. T. Barnum

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• The Art of Money Getting, P. T. Barnum
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert

  Georges Cuvier, a French naturalist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and one of the founders of paleontology. He was the first to prove that species can disappear forever.

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