A) Charles Lyell.
B) Alfred Russel Wallace.
C) Thomas Malthus.
D) Erasmus Darwin.
E) Georges Cuvier.
G) C) and E)
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A) John Ray
B) Charles Darwin
C) Carolus Linnaeus
D) Alfred Russel Wallace
E) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
G) B) and C)
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A) developed a binomial system of classification for plants and animals.
B) was a proponent of evolutionary change.
C) opposed all notions of fixity of species.
D) was a supporter of Charles Darwin.
E) developed theories of natural selection.
G) A) and C)
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A) theory of uniformitarianism.
B) theory of natural selection.
C) theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
D) theory of catastrophism.
E) argument from design.
G) A) and C)
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A) strength.
B) reproductive success.
C) aggressiveness.
D) size.
E) age at death.
G) D) and E)
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A) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
B) Georges Cuvier
C) Carolus Linnaeus
D) Charles Lyell
E) Erasmus Darwin
G) C) and E)
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A) proposed that population size is kept in check by the limited availability of resources.
B) wrote the theory of catastrophism.
C) wrote the theory of uniformitarianism.
D) had no influence on the development of Darwin's and Wallace's theories of natural selection.
E) was a sixteenth-century mathematician.
G) A) and B)
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A) Charles Darwin
B) Charles Lyell
C) Alfred Russel Wallace
D) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
E) Thomas Malthus
G) All of the above
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A) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
B) Georges Cuvier.
C) Thomas Malthus.
D) Charles Darwin.
E) Charles Lyell.
G) D) and E)
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A) natural selection.
B) catastrophism.
C) the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
D) uniformitarianism.
E) fixity of species.
G) B) and E)
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Charles Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism was important to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as they developed their theories of biological evolution because it provided a framework for understanding the long-term processes that shape the Earth's surface and the organisms that inhabit it.
Uniformitarianism suggests that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the present have also operated in the past, and at the same rate. This idea allowed Darwin and Wallace to infer that the Earth and its life forms had changed gradually over long periods of time, rather than through sudden, catastrophic events. This concept of gradual change over time provided a crucial foundation for their theories of evolution by natural selection.
By recognizing the slow and steady processes of geological change, Darwin and Wallace were able to envision how small variations in organisms could accumulate over generations, leading to the development of new species. They were also able to see how environmental factors could influence the survival and reproduction of different traits, leading to the adaptation of species to their specific habitats.
In essence, Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism helped Darwin and Wallace to understand the deep time scales and gradual processes that underlie the diversity of life on Earth, and it provided a crucial framework for their theories of biological evolution.
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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.
G) B) and C)
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A) Alfred Russel Wallace
B) Georges-Louis Comte Leclerc de Buffon
C) Erasmus Darwin
D) John Ray
E) Georges Cuvier
G) C) and D)
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A) the binomial system.
B) natural selection.
C) uniformitarianism.
D) God's design.
E) Lamarckism.
G) A) and D)
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