Comments on: Book review – Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene/2021/02/01/book-review-catastrophic-thinking-extinction-and-the-value-of-diversity-from-darwin-to-the-anthropocene/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:22:02 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/02/01/book-review-catastrophic-thinking-extinction-and-the-value-of-diversity-from-darwin-to-the-anthropocene/comment-page-1/#comment-95062Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:07:50 +0000/?p=12728#comment-95062[…] transitions that lined up nicely with punctuated equilibria. Cuvier championed catastrophism and species extinction[1]. And Lamarck was at loggerheads with Cuvier by arguing for slow and gradual change of species. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/02/01/book-review-catastrophic-thinking-extinction-and-the-value-of-diversity-from-darwin-to-the-anthropocene/comment-page-1/#comment-42879Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:51:05 +0000/?p=12728#comment-42879[…] change and contemporary apocalypse” (p. 196), something explored further in Sepkoski’s Catastrophic Thinking. When visiting a dinosaur trackway in Utah, she reminds the reader that it is easy to lose sight of […]

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