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"A species is a reproductive community of populations (reproductively isolated from others) that occupies a specific niche in nature." — Ernst Mayr, "The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance"(1982), 273.
"Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion." — Sir Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1837)
"All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists'…
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