English Natural Scientist Robert Hooke

question 19

Multiple Choice

English natural scientist Robert Hooke

• A) had virtually ignored fossils.
• B) had thought erosion must have destroyed most of the fossils that ever existed.
• C) had thought extinct plants and animals were not fossilized.
• D) had thought that fossils were merely tricks of nature.
• E) had thought that fossils were the remains of plants and animals that became extinct as the earth changed.

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