Darwin’s explanation of evolution drew heavily on the concept of uniformitarianism, a principle established in geology and codified by the great geologist Charles Lyell. Lyell insisted that we should not invoke unknown mechanisms to explain past changes, but base our explanations only on processes we...
The method of actualism (≅ uniformitarianism) is extensively used in geology. According to it geological processes occur in a similar way under similar conditions. Therefore, by observing present-day processes it is possible to judge how analogous processes occurred in the distant past. Present-da...
ey use the idea of uniformitarianism to explain this. What This Means For these scientists who refuse to use the Bible to help them understand geology, the same slow and gradual processes that are happening today have been happening for billions of years in the past. ey look at the rock ...
1 Introduction: How to write history of biology 摘录 A history of science is a history of the development of the principles that form the conceptual framework of science. Because the great controversies of the past often reach into modern science, many current arguments cannot be fully understood...
He contributed to what was later called uniformitarianism—a fundamental principle of geology—that explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. Hutton's work helped to establish geology as a science, and as a result he is often referred to as ...
From there, it is but a small – though not necessarily easy, given that uniformitarianism is hardly applicable here, – step back to the primordial gene pool. The final point on this second comment of Doolittle is about eukaryotes and whether or not we would take the existence of eukaryotic...
By the middle of the 19th century, Ussher’s chronology came under increasing attack from supporters of uniformitarianism, who argued that Ussher’s “young Earth” was incompatible with the increasingly accepted view of an Earth much more ancient than Ussher’s. In the book Before Genesis, the...
Explain the difference between chromatins and chromatids, and what part of the DNA each of them make up? What role do they have in the structure of DNA? What is the difference between catastrophism and uniformitarianism? What are some causes of disciplinary problems?
Nonetheless, these studies, when the analysis is led at the species level, are for the most part performed with environmental niche-based models (ENMs). These models have widely acknowledged limitations (e.g., [39]) that are mostly derived from the hypothesis of uniformitarianism. Indeed, ...
“Human beings were catastrophists at heart until their instinctive awareness of Earth’s unpredictability was supplanted by a belief in uniformitarianism —… and also a range of government practices informed by statistical probability.” –Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement impact, smudge studio 002...