"This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth."
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Evolution and Religion in Education (1926), p. 41
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn (August 8, 1857 β November 6, 1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist. He described and named the Ornitholestes in 1903, Tyrannosaurus in 1905, the Pentaceratops in 1923, and the Velociraptor in 1924.
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