Here comes Passage of the Day for Feb 21.
In his 2009 book, Darwin’s Lost World, Martin Brasier, a professor at Oxford, briskly disassembled the principle of uniformity, which broadly says that, natural laws being uniform, fossils can be best understood by studying living animals. Uniformitarianism has proved a powerful tool in many fields, Brasier admitted, but it ignores an organism’s profound interdependence with its environment. The theory breaks down in the Precambrian era,
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In his 2009 book, Darwin’s Lost World, Martin Brasier, a professor at Oxford, briskly disassembled the principle of uniformity, which broadly says that, natural laws being uniform, fossils can be best understood by studying living animals. Uniformitarianism has proved a powerful tool in many fields, Brasier admitted, but it ignores an organism’s profound interdependence with its environment. The theory breaks down in the Precambrian era,
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