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hummingbird

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on: Jul 7, 2013
With what other idea of his time was Cuvier's theory of catastrophism most in conflict?
A) gradualism
B) the fixity of species
C) island biogeography
D) uniformitarianism
E) the scala naturae


Celeste

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Reply #1 on: May 24, 2019
D


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