According to ____, environmental pressures caused changes in body parts, which were directed by ____ and passed

onto offspring.



a. Lyell; genetics
b. Lamarck; fluida
c. Darwin; genetics
d. Cuvier; lineages
e. Aristotle; fluida


ANSWER: b

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