Lyell’s notion of the greater age of Earth gave more time for gradual change in species,
Why was it necessary for scientist to believe that earth was i-la in order for Darwin’s theory of gradual evolution by natural selection work?
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James Hutton, a Scottish geologist and naturalist, proposed that geological change occurred gradually by accumulating small changes from processes operating like they are today over long periods of time.
This means that the earth changes slowly over time; not through sudden events. This helped scientist understand that evolution also need a long time to occur.
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Evolution by natural selection describes a mechanism for how species change over time.
This sentence explains that evolution happen through process called natural selection, which causes species to change gradually across generations rather than all at once.
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