Who were James Hutton and Charles Lyell and what was their contribution to this discussion?
a) They were paleontologists who discovered fossil evidence of mass extinctions.
b) They were geneticists who proposed the theory of natural selection.
c) They were geologists who proposed the principle of uniformitarianism, suggesting that geological processes observed today also occurred in the past at the same rate.
d) They were archaeologists who excavated ancient civilizations and studied their demise.