uniformitarianism

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uniformitarianism意思解释

n.

均变论；

英英释义

Uniformitarianism is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe. It has included the gradualistic concept that \"the present is the key to the past\"and is functioning at the same rates.