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During this epochal publication, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of many nice scientists of recent occasions, places the total histories of our Earth and of humanity on a brand new foundation. He provides the result of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary examine in an simply comprehensible, even unique demeanour. Inspite - or perhaps simply because - of the disgraceful hostility, provoked by way of his theories, this publication retains being of ardent topicality, which within the mild of modern medical study is even becoming. Earth in Upheaval - a really precisely investigated and simply comprehensible publication - includes fabric that perfectly revolutionizes our view of the historical past of the earth. For all those that have ever puzzled in regards to the evolution of the earth, the formation of mountains and oceans, the beginning of coal or fossils, the query of the ice a while and the historical past of animal and plant species, Earth in Upheaval is a MUST-READ!
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190. 8 Ibid. 4 James Geikie, Prehistoric hunting (1874), p. 416. 5 Cuvier, Recherches sur les Europe (1881), p. Lartet, Reliquiae Dawkins, Cave- ossements fossiles des quadruples, IV, 94. 6 E. 137; aqultanlcae, pp. 147-48. " But how could they live in the cold of northern Europe? " If cold-blooded land animals are unable to hide themselves in the ground over the winter, in icy climates their blood would freeze solid: they lack the ability to regulate the temperature of their bodies. " The bones were not yet fossilized; their organic matter was not yet replaced by minerals.
2 These animals perished in rather recent times; present estimates place their extinction at the end of the Ice Age or in early post-glacial times. The soil of Alaska covered their bodies together with those of animals of species still surviving. 1 F. Rainey. "Archaeological Investigation in Central Alaska," American Antiquity, V (1940), 305. 2 The horse became extinct hi pre-Columbian America; the present horses in the Western Hemisphere are descendants of imported animals. 1 IN THE 2 Under what NORTH conditions did this great slaughter take which millions upon millions of animals were torn limb from limb and mingled with uprooted trees?
P. , p. 43. " pendicular in the sandstone, with broken ends. In 1829 the German scientist G. A. Erman went to the Liakhov and the New Siberian islands to measure there the magnetic field of the earth. He described the soil as full of the bones of elephants, rhinoceroses, and buffaloes. Of the piles of wood he wrote: "In New Siberia [Island], on the declivities facing the south, lie hills 250 or 300 feet high, formed of driftwood, the ancient origin of which, as well as of the fossil wood in the tundras, anterior to the history of the Earth in its present state, strikes at once even the most uneducated hunters.