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Coming from very ancient times.

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  • I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
  • He goes back to the first link, or to what he calls primordial generation.
  • The issue was exponential growth in primordial populations.
  • Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen...
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