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6. Many people in the 1700s thought that Earth was only about 6000 years old. How did

the fossil organisms Darwin saw lead him to think Earth must be much older than that?

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would take much longer than 6000 years for the changes to occur between the fossil organisms he saw and their modern day relatives.

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