Multiple Choice
Georges Cuvier and his followers developed the theory of ____, reasoning that each layer of fossils represented the remains of organisms that had died as a result of dramatic shifts in ancient environments.
A) fossilization
B) uniformitarianism
C) sedimentation
D) catastrophism
E) gradualism
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