<div dir="ltr">For reference you can find a copy of Clarence King's "Catastrophe And Evolution" in the folder "King" here: <div><br></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-c2CVg9ZQsAY2NZcU1mNGVrbFU/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-c2CVg9ZQsAY2NZcU1mNGVrbFU/view?usp=sharing</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Steven Ericsson-Zenith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@iase.us" target="_blank">steven@iase.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Darwin's observations were challenged by the American geologist Clarence King in his "Catastrophe and Evolution" (King 1877), an argument much admired and supported by Charles Peirce. He argues that it is not natural selection by incremental mutation, while indubitable in some minor cases, but the catastrophic evolutionary pressure that produces the significant diversity of species. <div><br></div><div>Steven</div><div><br></div></div>
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