_________ was an eighteenth-century thinker who believed that living forms changed in response to the environment. Although he did not think nature was perfect or had a grand purpose, he still rejected the idea that one species could give rise to another.
A)Alfred Russel Wallace
B)Georges-Louis Comte Leclerc de Buffon
C)Erasmus Darwin
D)John Ray
E)Georges Cuvier

Question

_________ was an eighteenth-century thinker who believed that living forms changed in response to the environment.  Although he did not think nature was perfect or had a grand purpose, he still rejected the idea that one species could give rise to another.
A)Alfred Russel Wallace
B)Georges-Louis Comte Leclerc de Buffon
C)Erasmus Darwin
D)John Ray
E)Georges Cuvier

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, was an 18th-century French naturalist who proposed that species could change over time due to environmental influences, though he did not believe in the transformation of one species into another.

_________ Was an Eighteenth-Century Thinker Who Believed That Living Forms