The quote from Lewis Carroll’s novel Through the Looking-Glass, "It takes all the running you can do to stay in one place" is the basis of a hypothesis used to explain which evolutionary phenomena?

the law of original horizontality explains:   why rocks appear in layers. correct answer: b the law suggests that all rock layers are originally laid down (deposited) horizontally and can later be deformed.   the principle is used by geologists to make assumptions about the relative ages of sedimentary rocks.