The concept of ____, the view that slow and continuous physical processes, acting over long periods of time,produced

Earth’s major geological features, was proposed by ____.



a. gradualism; James Hutton
b. natural selection; Charles Darwin
c. catastrophism; Georges Cuvier
d. natural theology; Nicolaus Copernicus
e. uniformitarianism; Thomas Huxley


ANSWER: a

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