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Was anyone else amazed that Darwin's theories of evolution as a gradual process have now been clouded by research about when/why/where extinctions occur?
Deep I'm amazed that off of the amount of information that someone could gather in a lifetime during Charles Darwin's era, he managed to come up with such …moreI'm amazed that off of the amount of information that someone could gather in a lifetime during Charles Darwin's era, he managed to come up with such revolutionary ideas at the time that it founded new fields of study and groups like the International Committee on Stratigraphy, which tell us so much about the Earth's history, could build off of. The fact that we can point out fallacies in his theories and fill the gaps of misinformation with new evidence and findings helps show how much further along we have come in the time since.

To me its food for thought, posing the question of what future investigations will reveal as inaccurate.(less)
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The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author)
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