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“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.”

newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11

@cyrilpedia is there any good assay that tries to explain why Darwin suported pangenesis?

@martinho_lab I think he didn't so much support as develop his own theory of pangenesis.

@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.

@cyrilpedia but why? Why following Hippocrates reasoning and give bullets to Lamarckism…

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