Darwin Referred to a Gradual Change from an Ancestral Type

question 49

Multiple Choice

Darwin referred to a gradual change from an ancestral type as

• A) uniformitarianism.
• B) descent with modification.
• C) fossils.
• D) natural selection.
• E) special creation.

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