With What Other Idea of His Time Was Cuvier's Theory

question 23

Multiple Choice

With what other idea of his time was Cuvier's theory of catastrophism most in conflict?

• A) gradualism
• B) the fixity of species
• C) island biogeography
• D) uniformitarianism
• E) the scala naturae

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