This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought called catastrophism that maintained that many of the geological features of the earth and the history of life could be explained by catastrophic events that had caused the extinction of many species of animals.
This led Cuvier to become an active proponent of the geological school of thought. This thought was called catastrophism. Many of the geological features of the earth and the history of life could be explained by catastrophic events. These catastrophic events had caused the extinction of many species of animals. This catastrophism maintained this.