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segrsyd

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, why had it become increasingly difficult for people to think that the Earth was young and unchanged?
 
  a. The church began accepting the idea of evolution.
  b. The work of James Ussher was disproven.
  c. Lamarck proved that evolution by natural selection took millions of years.
  d. Fossils of animals no longer in existence were being found in deep geological strata.

Question 2

Georges Cuvier is the naturalist best associated with which of the following ideas?
 
  a. the inheritance of acquired characteristics
  b. catastrophism
  c. evolution
  d. uniformitarianism



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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: b




segrsyd

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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