Perilous planet earth : catastrophes and catastrophism through the ages /

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Author / Creator:Palmer, Trevor, 1944-
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:ix, 522 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4914812
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ISBN:0521819288
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-501) and index.

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505 0 0 |g Pt. I.  |t Catastrophism: the story of its decline and fall ... and resurrection --  |g Sect. A.  |t From prehistory to 1899: catastrophism dominates for centuries, but then gives way to gradualism --  |g 1.  |t Mythology, religion and catastrophism --  |g 2.  |t Hutton: fact and fiction about the origins of modern gradualism --  |g 3.  |t Cuvier and Lamarck: choosing between extinction and evolution --  |g 4.  |t Natural theology and Noah's Flood: the high-water mark of catastrophism --  |g 5.  |t Catastrophism, uniformitarianism and idealist philosophy --  |g 6.  |t Lyell triumphant: gradualism dominates geology --  |g 7.  |t Darwin and evolution --  |g 8.  |t After the Origin: the triumph of evolutionary gradualism --  |g Sect. B.  |t From 1900 to 1979: gradualism reigns supreme --  |g 9.  |t Neo-Darwinism: the Modern Synthesis --  |g 10.  |t Phyletic gradualism --  |g 11.  |t Gradualist perceptions of human evolution --  |g 12.  |t Heretical catastrophists --  |g 13.  |t Atlantis: rational and irrational theories of a 'lost' civilisation --  |g 14.  |t Evolutionary mass extinctions and neocatastrophism --  |g 15.  |t Punctuated equilibrium: a new evolutionary perspective --  |g 16.  |t Human evolution: gradual or punctuational? --  |g Sect. C.  |t From 1980 to the present day: catastrophism strikes back --  |g 17.  |t Evolution evolving --  |g 18.  |t Into the new millennium: evolution today --  |g 19.  |t Chaos in the Solar System --  |g 20.  |t Catastrophes on Earth --  |g 21.  |t The death of the dinosaurs: iridium and the K-T extinctions --  |g 22.  |t The continuing K-T debate --  |g 23.  |t Mass extinctions and the course of evolution --  |g Pt. II.  |t Catastrophes and the history of life on Earth --  |g 24.  |t Extinctions large and small --  |g 25.  |t Cyclic processes and mass extinctions --  |g 26.  |t The uncertain origins of humankind --  |g 27.  |t Ice Ages in the Pleistocene Epoch --  |g 28.  |t Modern views of Atlantis --  |g 29.  |t Natural catastrophes and the rise and fall of civilisations --  |g 30.  |t Conclusions. 
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