_________ Was an 18th Century Thinker Who Believed That Living

question 41

Multiple Choice

_________ was an 18th century thinker who believed that living forms changed in response to the environment yet still rejected the idea that one species could give rise to another.

• A) Alfred Russel Wallace
• B) Georges-Louis Leclerk de Buffon
• C) Erasmus Darwin
• D) John Ray
• E) Georges Cuvier

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