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Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the
processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in
consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes
his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then
the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and
Indonesia.
As important to modern world views as any work of Darwin, Marx, or
Freud, Lyell's" Principles of Geology "has never before been
available in paperback. In this third and final volume, Charles
Lyell (1797-1875) devotes much attention to the "syntax of
geology," that is, to a way of reconstructing the geological past
on the basis of the "grammar" of the present processes he has
described in the earlier volumes. He defines four periods of the
Tertiary--Newer Pliocene, Older Pliocene, Miocene, and Eocene--and
argues that the deposits dating from each period demonstrate the
uniformity of processes and environments throughout the Tertiary,
and indeed in earlier periods of earth history.
Martin J. S. Rudwick has compiled a bibliography giving full
references for the sources Lyell cites in all three volumes of the
"Principles."
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