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Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell

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Percieved that the change in earth surface is result of slow continuous actions that are still operating today

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Georges Cuvier

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dev of paleontology, also catastrophism

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Who came up with uniformitarianism

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Charles Lyell

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What was Lamarck’s hypothesis

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Species develop through the disuse of body parts and inheritance of acquired traits
It is incorrect

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Darwins Ideas

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Descent with modification explains life’s
unity and diversity
Natural selection is a cause of adaptive
evolution.

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What did Thomas Malthus note

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population could grow beyond what the environment could handle

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What did Alfred wallace do

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developed bio geography - states that species that live closer together are more related than species that have similar lifestyle far away.
Also came up with theory of evolution
used malaysian islands
wallce line

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