1.I believe Charles Lyell was the most influential on the development of natural selection because he is the founder of modern geology.
2. Charles Lyell contributed a lot to the scientific community, by implementing the geological processes with a theory called geological uniformatism demonstrated that forces such as wind, erosion, local flooding all contributed in the past to produce the geological landscape that we see today.
Here is a link http://allaboutscience.org/sir-charles-lyell-faq.htm
3. I believe the bullet point that best describes Darwin’s point was the one that stated if the environment changes,the traits that are helpful or adaptive to that environment will be different.Here, Lyell demonstrated that forces such as wind ,water erosion, local flooding,frost ,decomposition of vegetable matter ,volcanoes, earthquakes,and glacial movements had all contributed in the past t o produce the geological landscape that we see today.
4.I believe that Darwin could not have developed his theory of natural selection without the influence of Lyell . This is because Darwin and Lyell shared a support of uniformitarian’s. Also it helped Darwin to validate his own beliefs . The processes were ongoing , indicating that geological change continues to still happen and the forces driving such change were consistent , or uniform , overtime.This means that various aspects of the earth’s surface such as the climate , plants, animals,and land surfaces vary through time, are constant.
5..Charles Darwin began slowing down on the process of publishing his book “On the origin of species” due to the fact that he was hesitated by the church because Darwin knew it would be very controversial with many people who believe in a literal interpretation of the bible would accept no compromise. Religion and science vary from different aspects of the human experience, and they aren’t inherently mutually exclusive approaches. Darwin was also troubled by his wife Emma, whom saw his ideas as running counter to her strong religious convictions.
