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Adam Sedgwick
(born March 22, 1785, Dent, Yorkshire, Eng. — died Jan. 27, 1873, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) English geologist. A pioneer in the establishment of geology as a university discipline (Trinity College, Oxford), he named the Cambrian Period and (with Roderick Murchison) the Devonian Period. His grandnephew, the zoologist Adam Sedgwick (1854 – 1913), first established the evolutionary link between the annelids and the arthropods.

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