Bücher online kaufen
Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution
-0 %
The Ongoing Debate
HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Print on Demand | Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9780306457517
Veröffentl:
1999
Einband:
HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.02.1999
Seiten:
476
Autor:
Trevor Palmer
Gewicht:
875 g
Format:
241x160x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.
1. The Context of Evolution: The Earth and Its Surroundings.- 2. The Establishment of Gradualism.- 3. Gradualism under Challenge.- 4. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism?.- 5. The Erratic Descent of Man.- 6. Toward a New Evolutionary Synthesis.- Postscript-The Hammer and The Pendulum.- References.