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What theory did Sir Charles Lyell champion?

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He championed and won general acceptance of the theory of uniformity of causes, which was first proposed by James Hutton (as opposed to the theory of catastrophism ) in his Principles of Geology (3 vol., 1830-33), which went into 12 editions in his lifetime.

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