The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of - Addison Anderson
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Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nicolas Steno earned his chops at a young age, studying cadavers and drawing anatomic connections between species. Steno made outsized contributions to the field of geology, influencing Charles Lyell, James Hutton and Charles Darwin. Addison Anderson recounts Steno’s little-known legacy and lauds his insistence on empiricism over blind theory.
Stratigraphy is useful for putting together a timeline of life forms found in rock layers, but what other facts or laws do you need to make that timeline as useful as possible? What does stratigraphy not provide?
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