Some surgeons are injecting tiny amounts of silicone oil into the lips to plump them. A few types of silicone oil are approved for injection into the body, but others are not, and none are approved for cosmetic use.
Figure 10c-2: Sir Charles Lyell, 1797-1875. The theory of uniformitarianism was also important in shaping the development of ideas in other disciplines. The work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace on the origin of the Earth's species extended the ideas of uniformitarianism into the biological sciences.
Uniformitarianism is one of the most important unifying concepts in the geosciences. This concept developed in the late 1700s, suggests that catastrophic processes were not responsible for the landforms that existed on the Earth's surface.