Multiple Choice
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
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