Darwin had difficulty explaining how populations could maintain sufficient levels of variation since most people living at the time he proposed his theory

Question

A. were not willing to accept evolution.

B. had not been to South America.

C. could not perform the mathematics required for population genetics.

D. thought that inheritance occurred through blending.

E. believed William Paley.

Answer 1

A. People accepted evolution (mostly).

B. This may be true but it's not the reason why.

C. No

D. This is the correct answer. Many academics thought that blending would always result in the negation of favorable characteristics.

E. Many accepted the ideas of Paley but he's not the sole reason for unwillingness to change.

Answer 2

A. As much as the other answers make sense, Darwin's theory was widely disregarded by the world on a basis of still being very much religiously stubborn. With a predominately Catholic world, the church would've said it was heretical to think of anything other than the story in Genesis of Adam and Eve as the origin for human creation.