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David Lack
Charles Lyell was a Scottish geologist whose Principles of Geology, published in 1833, presented a theory that the Earth was still changing and evolving. Lyell’s views were deemed heretical at the time—but they greatly influenced Charles Darwin, who took Lyell’s position a step farther and posited that not only the Earth, but the species that called it home, were in a state of constant flux.
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Chapter 2: What Darwin Saw
...time was full of scholars and thinkers who debated whether life was fixed or not— Charles Lyell , one such man, suggested a then-heretical view that while species were fixed, the Earth...
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