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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky  

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  • Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, an outstanding Russian mineralogist, biogeochemist, historian of science, philosopher, and political figure especially concerned himself with the origin and historical development of humankind as a natural stage of the biosphere evolution, and a place of man as an “autotrophic” species in a present-day biosphere. The peak of his research work fell on in the period of great upheavals in the history of Russia. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich (1863–1945)]

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