While Aboard the H

question 58

Multiple Choice

While aboard the H.M.S. Beagle , Darwin was given a book called Principles of Geology , which primed him to apply ____ to the living world.

• A) the modern synthesis and orthogenesis
• B) genetics and biogeography
• C) natural theology and uniformitarianism
• D) catastrophism and gradualism
• E) gradualism and uniformitarianism

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