Question

Natural historians and amateur collectors found large deposits of fossils in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The fossilized animals and plants had been preserved in rock, and they were important evidence about the history of life on earth and how it had changed over time.But scientists also found it difficult to explain the fossil evidence. Please answer these questions: •How did catastrophists explain the existence of these fossils and the patterns they showed about how life changed over time? •Why were these fossils, especially the patterns of their disappearance (extinctions), such a problem for proponents of evolution? How did proponents of evolutionary theories try to explain the fossil evidence in the 1800s?

200 words explain.

Answer 1

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