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MariettaO [177]
3 years ago
9

Catastrophism, meaning the regular occurrence of geological or meteorological disturbances (catastrophes), was Cuvierʹs attempt

to explain the existence of
A) evolution.
B) the fossil record.
C) uniformitarianism.
D) the origin of new species.
E) natural selelection
Biology
1 answer:
alexandr1967 [171]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The correct answer is option B) "the fossil record".

Explanation:

The French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier was the leader of catastrophism, a theory that states that the Earth was shaped by a series of devastating natural events. Georges Cuvier proposed catastrophism's theory as an attempt to explain the existence of the fossil record. Cuvier speculated that large extinction events followed a certain pattern and he attributed these pattern to catastrophic events.

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