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Many geologists have been selfconsciously perturbed by the fact that their science is extensively descriptive, and by the possibility that it may have little theoretical structure of its own. It has been supposed that its nondescriptive content may be largely, or even wholly, the application of the principles of other sciences to the special objects and events that geologists only describe. (For example, see Bradley, 1963; Kitts, 1963a.)
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Simpson, G.G. (1970). Uniformitarianism. An Inquiry into Principle, Theory, and Method in Geohistory and Biohistory. In: Hecht, M.K., Steere, W.C. (eds) Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9585-4_2
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