of organic evolution, proposing "Centres of Creation" to explain diversity and territory of species. Darwin's ideas gradually moved beyond this, but in geology he operated very much as Lyell's disciple and sent home extensive evidence and theorizing supporting Lyell's uniformitarianism, including Darwin's ideas about the formation of atolls.

Criticism

Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology was met with a lot of criticism when it was first published. The main argument against Lyell is that he took

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