What did the Scottish geologist and plant-breeder James Hutton claim about a possible evolutionary mechanism similar to natural selection (many years before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace)?that only natural selection, not artificial selection, could lead to improved plant and animal speciesthat selection for heritable variation could improve species, but not varieties, of plants and animalsthat selection for heritable variation could improve varieties, but not species, of plants and animalsthat only artificial selection, not natural selection, could lead to improved plant and animal speciesthat artificial selection of crops and livestock improves plants and animals more than natural selection

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What did the Scottish geologist and plant-breeder James Hutton claim about a possible evolutionary mechanism similar to natural selection (many years before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace)?
that only natural selection, not artificial selection, could lead to improved plant and animal species
that selection for heritable variation could improve species, but not varieties, of plants and animals
that selection for heritable variation could improve varieties, but not species, of plants and animals
that only artificial selection, not natural selection, could lead to improved plant and animal species
that artificial selection of crops and livestock improves plants and animals more than natural selection

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