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Nature 454, 406-407 (24 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454406b; Published online 23 July 2008

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Geological history turned upside down

Victor R. Baker1

BOOK REVIEWEDWorlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

by Martin J. S. Rudwick

University of Chicago Press: 2008. 614 pp. $49.00

Geologists study Earth by applying principles borrowed from more fundamental sciences. Yet geology also has its own set of attitudes that have accrued during the discipline's long history.

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