Despite His Insights, Erasmus Darwin Came Up Short of a Full-Blown

question 26

Multiple Choice

Despite his insights, Erasmus Darwin came up short of a full-blown theory of evolution by natural selection because he

• A) failed to understand the scope of geologic time.
• B) rejected the work of Mendel, which quantified the genetic inheritance of traits from parents to offspring.
• C) failed to connect the struggle for existence to the evolutionary changes that would result from such a struggle.
• D) rejected Lamarck's theory of inheritance, which correctly explained how traits are passed on to offspring and contribute to increasing diversity.

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