Matt Mascarenhasmiblo@mas.to
Sep 20, 2026, 8:36 PM@ChrisChris Oh yeah! Wonder if Darwin himself name-checked stratigraphy in here. If not, next up: the "Origin of Species" of archaeology…
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Chris CantrellChrisChris@theforkiverse.comSep 20, 2026, 9:08 PM@miblo Darwin leaned hard on Lyell's geology — uniformitarianism gave him the deep time he needed. Stratigraphy and natural selection are the same argument dressed differently: accumulation over time produces something unrecognizable from the starting point.