Abstract
History is far from an unchanging subjecr. As no red in rhe previous chaprer, rhe generally accepred view of rhe lare eighreenrh and early ninereenrh cenrury gradual-isrs (also called uniformirarians) has been rhar rhey were rrue scienrisrs, in marked conrrasr to rheir rivals, rhe carasrrophisrs, whose ideas were dominared by religious dogma. However, rhe repurarions of borh groups were reassessed during rhe 1980s in books such as Anrhony (Tony) Hallam's Great Geological Controversies (l}, Srephen Jay Gould's Time's Arrow. Time's Cycfe {2}, Richard Huggerr's Catacfysms and Earth History {3J, and Claude AlbrirtonJr.'s Catastrophic Episodes in Em'th HistolJI (4). These works were all published during 1983-1989, sandwiched berween rhe firsr and
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Palmer, T. (1999). The Establishment of Gradualism. In Controversy Catastrophism and Evolution (pp. 31–90). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4901-7_2
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