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consistent with uniformitarian doctrine to boot. The Alvarez team
rebutted, the critics countered, and thereby was produced one of the
most bitter scientific rivalries since the great controversy between
dinosaur hunters Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh, who in
the late nineteenth century quarreled openly for two decades about
their interpretation of the dinosaur evidence, with one even accusing
the other of stealing his fossils.
