What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Exercise 44

Georges Cuvier's discovery of fossils of Irish elk and giant ground sloths:
A) supports scientific evidence for extinction.
B) was possible because of Buffon's determination that the earth was more than 6,000 years old.
C) was possible only following Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species.
D) was made in deep ocean trenches.
E) suggested that species are immutable.