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What ideas in Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism were important for evolutionary theory? ​
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What ideas in Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism were important for evolutionary theory?
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He inferred that similar changes had happened in the past. Uniformitarianism combines the idea of gradual change over time with Lyell's observations that such changes have occurred at a constant rate and are ongoing.
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