Darwin read Lyell's book, Principles of Geology, while serving as ship's naturalist on the HMS Beagle. Lyell's work influenced Darwin in which of the following ways?

a. Prior to publishing On the Origin of Species, Darwin published three books on geology.
b. Darwin's ideas on the gradual changes associated with evolution are biological interpretations of Lyell's uniformitarian ideas.
c. By explaining Earth's dramatic geological features through uniformitarianism, Lyell conceived the world as changing across enormous expanses of time.
d. All of the above.


D

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