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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/23/2025 10:17 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 8/23/25 7:29 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> You're a really poor historian:   
   >   
   > So you refuse to read Darwin, his pangenesis. You refuse to "Research"   
   > lysenkoism or how Stalin & Mao banned evolution. But you will read   
   > people who aren't Darwin and then pretend you know what Darwin   
   > believed...   
   >   
   > Are you genuinely retarded or just trolling?   
   >   
      
   Read the Wikipedia article that I posted earlier:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought   
      
   Here are some highlights:   
      
   In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new   
   evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of   
   Species (1859). Darwin's theory, originally called descent with   
   modification is known contemporarily as Darwinism or Darwinian theory.   
   Unlike Lamarck, Darwin proposed common descent and a branching tree of   
   life, meaning that two very different species could share a common   
   ancestor. Darwin based his theory on the idea of natural selection: it   
   synthesized a broad range of evidence from animal husbandry,   
   biogeography, geology, morphology, and embryology. Debate over Darwin's   
   work led to the rapid acceptance of the general concept of evolution,   
   but the specific mechanism he proposed, natural selection, was not   
   widely accepted until it was revived by developments in biology that   
   occurred during the 1920s through the 1940s.   
      
   However, as historian of science Peter J. Bowler says, "Through a   
   combination of bold theorizing and comprehensive evaluation, Darwin came   
   up with a concept of evolution that was unique for the time." Bowler   
   goes on to say that simple priority alone is not enough to secure a   
   place in the history of science; someone has to develop an idea and   
   convince others of its importance to have a real impact.[92] Thomas   
   Henry Huxley said in his essay on the reception of On the Origin of Species:   
      
        The suggestion that new species may result from the selective   
   action of external conditions upon the variations from their specific   
   type which individuals present—and which we call "spontaneous," because   
   we are ignorant of their causation—is as wholly unknown to the historian   
   of scientific ideas as it was to biological specialists before 1858. But   
   that suggestion is the central idea of the 'Origin of Species,' and   
   contains the quintessence of Darwinism.   
      
   Darwin's theory succeeded in profoundly altering scientific opinion   
   regarding the development of life and in producing a small philosophical   
   revolution.[104] However, this theory could not explain several critical   
   components of the evolutionary process. Specifically, Darwin was unable   
   to explain the source of variation in traits within a species, and could   
   not identify a mechanism that could pass traits faithfully from one   
   generation to the next. Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, while relying   
   in part on the inheritance of acquired characteristics, proved to be   
   useful for statistical models of evolution that were developed by his   
   cousin Francis Galton and the "biometric" school of evolutionary   
   thought. However, this idea proved to be of little use to other biologists.   
      
   END CITATIONS   
      
   You can find more in the above article.   
      
   Dawn   
      
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