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| Believed that species had been created in a more perfect form & changed over time |
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| Proposed that life changed overtime |
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| Suggested life might have evolved from a single source |
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- Believed in use & disuse
- Also believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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- Found that fossils of simple organisms could be found at all depths
- Complex organisms only found in shallower rock
- Fossils in shallow depths similar to modern organisms
- Layers contain species which do not exist above or below them
- Proposed CATASTOPHISM |
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- Believed in UNIFORMITARIANISM
- Believed change was slow and gradual
- Believed natural laws are constant & eternal |
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| Believed populations were limited in size to their food supply/environment |
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- Believed animals had evolved
- Believed species in more remote areas had evolved into new species over time |
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