Week 1 Historical Influences on Darwin
1. The individual I chose for my post is Charles Lyell. 2. Charles Lyell's contribution made towards the scientific community was "Uniformitarianism" which involves the process of change in the earths crust. This made Charles Darwin view evolution from more of a biological standpoint. And this was a major contribution towards natural selection and how the earth proved that everything does in fact change over time. 3. I believe that Uniformitarianism positively affected the way Charles Darwin viewed evolution after he "applied Lyell's ideas." In fact, he helped and backed evidence of Charles Darwin's ideas of evolution by determining that it definitely is true, even though it is a long process that takes place "from one generation to the next." 4. I do not believe Charles Darwin could have effectively proved the Natural Selection theory without Charles Lyell. Darwin