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- Charles Lyell formulated the Philosophy of Uniformitarianism or Gradualism, which claims that smooth processes were at work in natural systems.
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- The “Theory of Gradualism” was given by James Hutton in 1795, a Scottish geologist, and was later incorporated into Charles Lyell’s theory of uniformitarianism.
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- The first form of life was not originated till about 200 million years ago.
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- Charles Darwin proposed theory of evolution in his famous book “The Origin of Species”. Early true man was Neanderthal Man.
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- Carolus Linnaeus gave the nomenclature according to which human are called Homo sapiens which means “Wise-humans”.