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6 years ago
Darwin read Lyell's book, Principles of Geology, while serving as ship's naturalist on the HMS Beagle. De-scribe how Lyell's work influenced Darwin.
 
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Answers will vary, but should include: Prior to publishing On the Origin of Species, Darwin published three books on geology; Darwin's ideas on the gradual changes associated with evolution are biological interpreta-tions of Lyell's uniformitarian ideas; by explaining Earth's dramatic geological features through uniformitari-anism, Lyell conceived the world as changing across enormous expanses of time.
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