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Yang Zhongjian
Chinese paleontologist.
Born June 1st, 1897 in Hua Prefecture.
Died January 15th, 1979 at 81 years old in Beijing.
Occupations
anthropologist, chancellor, curator, palaeontologist, science writer
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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson