this person is credited with the development of palaeontology. he studied fossils from different layers of rock, or stratum, and found the that the deeper down or older the fossil was, the less similar it was to modern animals, which gave evidence to evolution. He explained this by saying many disasters happened in the past.

MODERN THEORY OF EVOLUTION

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A	Darwin
B	Wallace
C	Cuvier
D	Lyell

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (French: [kyvje]; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the “founding father of paleontology".

Detailed explanation-2: -Georges Cuvier is being credited for the founding father of Paleontology. Paleontology is the study of life on Earth as based on fossils. It is the scientific study of life that previously existed and sometimes the start of Holocene Epoch.

Detailed explanation-3: -A paleontologist is a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record. Fossils are the evidence of past life on the planet and can include those formed from animal bodies or their imprints (body fossils).

Detailed explanation-4: -Birbal Sahni FRS (14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949) was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. He also took an interest in geology and archaeology. He founded what is now the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany at Lucknow in 1946.

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