Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Charles Darwin is renowned for his book on evolution, 'On the Origin of Species', which laid down a treasure of substantiation that evolution occurs, and projected a mechanism, that is, natural selection, for how it does so.
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laid into a treasure of substantiation
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laid about a treasure of substantiation
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laid away a treasure of substantiation
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laid out a treasure of substantiation