Evolution

He proposed, in the early years of the 19th century, the first broad theory of evolution.

• George Cuvier

• James Hutton

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

It is the theory that processes that create and arrange rocks into the current landscape are driven by heat concealed within Earth's interior

Darwin’s most important observations were made on the

• Hawaiian Islands

• Galápagos Islands

• Greenland

Alfred Russel Wallace also traveled to ______ and ______ to collect plant and animal specimens

• Indonesian Archipelago and North America

• Malay Archipelago

  and South America

• South America and North Africa

• South Africa and Indonesian Archipelago

He said that living things do change through time. He speculated that this was somehow a result of influences from the environment

• Charles Darwin

• Erasmus Darwin

• Jean Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck

• George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Through poems and a relatively obscure two-volume scientific work titled Zoonomia; or, the Rules of Organic Life, he expressed his views on evolution.

(1794-1796)

• George Cuvier

• Charles Lyell

• Alfred Russel Wallace

• Erasmus Darwin

The first evolutionist who confidently and very publicly stated his ideas about the processes leading to biological change was a French protégé of the Comte de Buffon.

He suggested that humans and apes are related. However, he made sure to conceal his radical viewpoints in a natural history book series. Hence, he publicly rejected the idea that species could evolve into other species to avoid criticism.

What is the limited edition 44 volume natural history book series (1749 1804) of Buffon?

Charles Lyell rejected catastrophism and introduced two philosophies that were widely accepted by the scientific community. Name one of them?