Throughout the novel Voltaire employs the element of setting to signify the importance of distorted societal values. Candide grows up in beautiful castle in Westphalia; he is a young man of suspicious birth. Voltaire begins with this setting so he can expose the warped values that are related to social status.
Answer: Short periods
Explanation:
The species must have only lived for a short period of geologic time.
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