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Charles
Darwin combined the ideas of geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell,
who proposed the ideas of gradualism
and Uniformitarianism, respectively. In 1859, Darwin published On The Origin
of Species[pic],
a revolutionary piece of literature that proposed the idea of evolution
with natural selection as its main mechanism. Thus, the Darwinian Revolution was set
forward. Our evolutionary
history is far more extensive then simply dating our existence back
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How do
we know all this? .... THE FOSSIL RECORD “The
ordered array in which fossils appear within layers, or strata, of sedimentary
rocks that mark the passing of geologic time” (Campbell, 2002).
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