“I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse and misrepresentation which, unless I am greatly mistaken, is in store for you,” Huxley had written Darwin just before the publication of “The Origin.” “I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/how-the-huxleys-electrified-evolution
@cyrilpedia is there any good assay that tries to explain why Darwin suported pangenesis?
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@martinho_lab I think he didn't so much support as develop his own theory of pangenesis.
@cyrilpedia but why? Why following Hippocrates reasoning and give bullets to Lamarckism…
@martinho_lab But yes, it does create a problem for natural selection, pangenesis being really what you would expect a Lamarckist to come up with.