Geologists Charles Lyell and James Hutton were instrumental in popularizing the concept of , the idea that the

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Geologists Charles Lyell and James Hutton were instrumental in popularizing the concept of           , the idea that the forces of nature operate slowly and at the same rate in the present as they did in the past.

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Uniformitarianism — the principle (sometimes called gradualism) that the same natural processes operating today have always operated in the past at similar rates.

Geologists Charles Lyell and James Hutton were instrumental in popularizing the concept of , the idea that the forces of nature operate slowly and at the same rate in the present as they did in the past.

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