Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to me… - D. V. Ager
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to me…
- D. V. Ager
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may … - D. V. Ager
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may …
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhy… - D. V. Ager
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhy…
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked. - D. V. Ager
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist sea… - D. V. Ager
In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist sea…
Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide… - D. V. Ager
Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide…
Experts always tend to obscure the obvious. - D. V. Ager
Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the S… - D. V. Ager
Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the S…
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. - D. V. Ager
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