Uniformitarianism is defined as: A B C D the present is the key to the past the past is the key to the present the study of paleontology the science of the earth
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Step 1: Uniformitarianism is the principle that the present is the key to the past, meaning that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the past. Show more…
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