Despite the importance of natural selection in evolution it did not provide a full answer, there were still questions about how these differing traits could be passed from parent to offspring. During Darwin’s time the prevailing theory was blended inheritance by which two parent’s traits would meet in the middle in the offspring however many people during the time period, including Darwin, found flaws with this reasoning for example that it would eventually lead to all organisms being the
Despite the importance of natural selection in evolution it did not provide a full answer, there were still questions about how these differing traits could be passed from parent to offspring. During Darwin’s time the prevailing theory was blended inheritance by which two parent’s traits would meet in the middle in the offspring however many people during the time period, including Darwin, found flaws with this reasoning for example that it would eventually lead to all organisms being the