Explain why Charles Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism was important to Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as they developed their theories of biological evolution.
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Step 1: Charles Lyell's principle of uniformitarianism is the idea that the geology of the modern day is a result of very slow, gradual processes over millions of years. Show more…
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