Who concluded that in fact concluded that earth was eternal; “No vestige of beginning, no prospect of an end?
a) Charles Lyell
b) George Cuvier
c) James Hutton
d) both a and c
One of the first to propose a mechanism for evolution was……..
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Lamarck
d) Aristotle
Explanation: Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck was a French naturalist
Who hypothesized that organism evolved through the inheritance of acquired characteristics?
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Lamarck
d) Aristotle
Who proposed that all organisms possess an innate drive for
perfection and urge to climb the ladder of nature?
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Lamarck
d) Aristotle
Philosophic zoologique was a paper published in1809 by…….
a) Charles Darwin
b) George Cuvier
c) Lamarck
d) Aristotle
Who provided convincing evidence that the driving force behind evolutionary change was natural selection?
a) Charles Darwin
b) Alfred Russell Wallace
c) Lamarck
d) both a and b
Explanation: both proposed independently in 1858
