Philip Gingerich had unintentionally taken up this challenge in the mid-1970s.

70年代中期，菲利普．金格里奇无意中接受了挑战。

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Later the same month Gingerich came across some archaic whale specimens in museums in Lucknow and Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

同月，金格里奇在印度勒克瑙(Lucknow)和加尔各答(Kolkata)的博物馆里偶然看到了古代鲸鱼标本。

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Gingerich and many other paleontologists trusted the hard evidence of the bones more than the molecular comparisons of living animals.

证据确凿的骨骼证据，分子学家的分子比照，金格·里奇和其他古生物学家更相信前者。

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According to Gingerich, the book published in 1609 was in essence the first ever to introduce physical principles into the study of astronomy.

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The exhibit displays the work of scientists like paleontologist Philip Gingerich, whose excavations in Pakistan are beginning to fill in some of the many gaps in the fossil record.

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Mr. LEONARD KRISHTALKA (Museum Director): For example, here is a discovery by Gingerich of an ancient whale, its hind leg, and here is the hind leg of the hippopotamus and the structures are very, very similar.

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