While aboard the H.M.S. Beagle , Darwin was given a book called Principles of Geology , which primed him to apply ____ to the living world.
A) the modern synthesis and orthogenesis
B) genetics and biogeography
C) natural theology and uniformitarianism
D) catastrophism and gradualism
E) gradualism and uniformitarianism

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The book "Principles of Geology" by Charles Lyell, which Darwin read aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, advocated for gradualism and uniformitarianism. These principles suggest that the Earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation today, which influenced Darwin's thinking about natural selection and evolution.

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