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Portrait of Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), a founder of modern geology who proposed the Devonian and Cambrian (Cambrian Explosion) geologic periods. Though a mentor to young Charles Darwin, Sedgwick opposed the materialist nature of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
Photo by Ernest Edwards, c. 1853 - in or before 1867.
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