000288798 000__ 02835cam\a22003494a\45\0 000288798 001__ 288798 000288798 005__ 20210513105823.0 000288798 008__ 021011s2003\\\\enka\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000288798 010__ $$a 2002035183 000288798 019__ $$a52976411 000288798 020__ $$a0521819288 000288798 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm50810521 000288798 035__ $$a288798 000288798 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dEYE 000288798 042__ $$apcc 000288798 049__ $$aISEA 000288798 05000 $$aQE506$$b.P35 2003 000288798 08200 $$a551.3/97$$221 000288798 1001_ $$aPalmer, Trevor,$$d1944- 000288798 24510 $$aPerilous planet earth :$$bcatastrophes and catastrophism through the ages /$$cTrevor Palmer. 000288798 260__ $$aCambridge ;$$aNew York :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2003. 000288798 300__ $$aix, 522 p. :$$bill. ;$$c26 cm. 000288798 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 373-501) and index. 000288798 5050_ $$aCatastrophism: The Story of its Decline and Fall ... and Resurrection -- From prehistory to 1899: Catastrophism dominates for centuries, but then gives way to gradualism -- Mythology, religion and catastrophism -- Hutton: fact and fiction about the origins of modern gradualism -- Cuvier and Lamarck: choosing between extinction and evolution -- Natural theology and Noah's Flood: the high-water mark of catastrophism -- Catastrophism, uniformitarianism and idealist philosophy -- Lyell triumphant: gradualism dominates geology -- Darwin and evolution -- After the Origin: the triumph of evolutionary gradualism -- From 1900 to 1979: Gradualism reigns supreme -- Neo-Darwinism: the Modern Synthesis -- Phyletic gradualism -- Gradualist perceptions of human evolution -- Heretical catastrophists -- Atlantis: rational and irrational theories of a 'lost' civilisation -- Evolutionary mass extinctions and neocatastrophism -- Punctuated equilibrium: a new evolutionary perspective -- 000288798 5050_ $$aHuman evolution: gradual or punctuational? -- From 1980 to the present day: Catastrophism strikes back -- Evolution evolving -- Into the new millennium: evolution today -- Chaos in the Solar System -- Catastrophes on Earth -- The death of the dinosaurs: iridium and the K-T extinctions -- The continuing K-T debate -- Mass extinctions and the course of evolution -- Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth -- Extinctions large and small -- Cyclic processes and mass extinctions -- The uncertain origins of humankind -- Ice ages in the Pleistocene epoch -- Modern views of Atlantis -- Natural catastrophes and the rise and fall of civilisations -- Conclusions. 000288798 650_0 $$aAsteroids$$xCollisions with Earth. 000288798 650_0 $$aCatastrophes (Geology) 000288798 650_0 $$aEvolution. 000288798 85200 $$bgen$$hQE506$$i.P35$$i2003 000288798 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2002035183.html 000288798 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2002035183.html 000288798 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002035183.html 000288798 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:288798$$pGLOBAL_SET 000288798 980__ $$aBIB 000288798 980__ $$aBOOK 000288798 994__ $$aC0$$bISE