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debasdf · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Which concept, proposed by Charles Lyell, was to have a profound effect on 19th century scientific thought?

a. recent origins for earth
b. the role of catastrophic events in producing geological phenomena
c. natural selection
d. the immense age of the earth and uniform processes
e. the inheritance of acquired characteristics

Question 2

The principle of uniformitarianism

a. stated that the geological processes that operated in the past are still occurring in the present.
b. was a problem for the development of evolutionary theories.
c. proposed that the earth was only a few thousand years old.
d. was the same as the theory of catastrophism.
e. was first proposed by Georges Cuvier.