The pioneering work of ________ in biological evolution contributed to nineteenth-century theories of social change. According to his approach, there has been a continuing progression of successive life forms.
A) Louis Pasteur
B) Charles Darwin
C) William
D) Émile Durkheim
E) Ogburn

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Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution, as outlined in his seminal work "On the Origin of Species," proposed that all living organisms developed through a process of natural selection and adaptation. This idea of gradual change over time and increasing complexity informed many nineteenth-century sociological theories of progress and social change.

The Pioneering Work of ________ in Biological Evolution Contributed to Nineteenth-Century