"Uniformitarianism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... long intervals to turn over a new leaf and start a new chapter in her great book. The transition from one geologic age to another appears to be abrupt: new colors, new constituents, new qualities appear in the rocks with a suddenness hard to reconcile with Lyell's doctrine of uniformitarianism, just as new species appear in the life of the globe with an abruptness hard to reconcile with Darwin's slow process of natural selection. Is sudden mutation, after all, the ...
— Time and Change • John Burroughs
... then denied. |Time, great |Time, great length of, |doctrine of |for |length of, |definitely postulated; |homologies. |existence. Nature |definitely |its duration practically| | advances by |demanded. |unlimited. | | gradations, | | | | passing from | |Uniformitarianism of | | one species | |Hutton and of Lyell |Founder of | to another by| |anticipated. |teratology. | imperceptible| | | | degrees. |Effects of |Effects of favorable |His embryo- | |change of |circumstances, such ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard |
