Worlds Before Adam Rudwick Professor Martin J. S.
Worlds Before Adam Rudwick Professor Martin J. S. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth--and the relatively recent…
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Worlds Before Adam Rudwick Professor Martin J. S.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth--and the relatively recent arrival of human life. But despite this apparent harmony between geology and Genesis, these scientists still debated a great many questions: Had the earth cooled from its origin as a fiery ball in space, or had it always been the same kind of place as it is now? The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about this vast timescale.
Rudwick's Worlds Before Adam picks up where his celebrated Bursting the Limits of Time leaves off. Was prehuman life marked by mass extinctions, or had fauna and flora changed slowly over time?The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman geohistory, Martin J. S. Here, Rudwick takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early
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