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Environmental factors have had a decided influence on the evolution of Life. It can hardly be an accident, for instance, that geological phenomena such as regression and the laramide mountain-building towards the close of the Mesozoic, should have corresponded with the equally important adaptive radiation of placental mammals. Then, too, can it be mere chance that the Psychozoic — which received its name from the fact that Man, the specialist of spiritual and intellectual differentiation, began to extend his supremacy over the world at that time — coincides with an exceptionally intensive phase of mountain-building and glaciation ?
“....changing environmental conditions stimulate the sluggish evolutionary stream to quickened movement”.
(R. S. Lull)
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Umbgrove, J.H.F. (1942). The Rhythm of Life. In: The Pulse of the Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6568-8_8
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