The principle of uniformitarianism ____________________.Group of answer choiceswas compatible with the idea of the Earth being only a few thousand years oldwas rejected by Darwin in favor of catastrophismstates that current geologic processes are very different from those that operated in the paststrongly influenced Darwin's view of how living organisms could change over time. PreviousNext

Uniformitarianism is the theory that:Group of answer choicesthe earth is very old, based on geologic evidence from stratigraphic layers in Scotland.the natural processes operating today are the same as the natural processes that operated in the past.the uniformity of species is derived from the common ancestor of all species.processes such as earthquakes are evidence supporting catastrophism as proposed by Lamarck.

Darwin referred to a gradual change from an ancestral type asMultiple Choiceuniformitarianism.descent with modification.fossils.natural selection.special creation.

In the 1930s, scientists unified natural selection and genetics into theMultiple choice question.genetic variation synthesis.heritable synthesis.modern evolutionary synthesis.theory of uniformitarianism.

In Darwin's view of descent with modification ____________________.Group of answer choicesnatural selection can improve the match between an organism and its environmentindividuals can evolveselection only operates when an organism needs to evolvean organism's traits only affect its own survival

Cuvier thought that lower layers of rock were older than those above them. This principle describesMultiple choice question.natural selection.polymorphism.uniformitarianism.superposition.