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1823–1891 United States

Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American physician, paleontologist, parasitologist, microscopist, professor of anatomy, and professor of natural history. He was elected in 1849 to the American Philosophical Society and appointed in 1863 by the U.S.

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The phenomena which characterize life are as follows: the origin of the organized body from a parent; its successive development and growth; the processes of nutrition and assimilation; the combustion of effete particles of structure; and reproduction. The cessation of these phenomena constitute death.

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