ANTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, Uniformitarianism
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James usser (1581-1656: archbishop of armaugh, primate of ireland, date of creation, annals of the world (1658, created a giant matrix of time, creation was october 23, 4004 b. c. Nicolas steno (1638-1686: law of superposition- on the surface of a deposit is the most recent, but as you dig further down the stuff gets older, original horizontality. James hutton (1726-1797: doctrine of uniformitarianism, what happened in the past is uniform over time. Example: rivers will always flood at the same time, but they will not always flood the same way. Catastrophism: events changing the world, biblical story of the flood, cuvier argued that the flood accounted for the fossil anomalies. Principles of geology (1830-1833: superposition + uniformitarianism + stratigraphy + extinction = time, gave darwin an idea of time so he could form his own idea of evolution, the biggest question that stems from this:
