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Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution: The Ongoing Debate

Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution: The Ongoing Debate

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Technology & EngineeringEvolutionPaleontology

ISBN10: 1461372224
ISBN13: 9781461372226
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 23 2012
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record.
According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.

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