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- Earth's mass extinctions
Prior to that, uniformitarianism was the dominant paradigm:
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- (chiefly geology) The scientific principle that natural laws and processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today, and sometimes in the same way everywhere in the universe as well. [from 19th c.]
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Earth's mass extinctions

Prior to that, uniformitarianism was the dominant paradigm:
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (chiefly geology) The scientific principle that natural laws and processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates that they operate today, and sometimes in the same way everywhere in the universe as well. [from 19th c.]
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