QQc 5-6

pg 71

Quote:“Catastrophists believed that extinctions were part of a series in which animals were repeatedly wiped out and replaced with new sets a belief that the naturalist T.H. Huxley mockingly likened to”

questions: what does this really mean by set? what is it about this that the naturalist liked?

comment:I dont agree with this quote if im understanding it correctly I dont think they are replaced with a set because that doesnt really make any sense to me. maybe like they are a new set of amiamls that are very simaliar to the once before. i think its intersting that catastrophists believe that they are replaced but what lead them to believe this?

qqc 4

In the blue is what I chose

question:how did he get contract dysentery?

this section in the reading I found really interesting because I am so amazed how people can be so dedicated to something. I wish I had something that I found so interesting that I would spend my days trying to get to the bottom of it. The fact that it took him eleven years and he achieved nothing is crazy to me. Also to go back home to find more terrible things sounds like the worse all for science. It really makes me think about are generation we must be super lazy compared to everyone else.