Darwin could not convince many of his contemporaries of natural selection because
A) Darwin thought that discontinuous variation was important for evolution.
B) they believed in genetic inheritance.
C) Darwin believed in blending inheritance, which reduces variation.
D) they believed that traits were inherited from only one parent.

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Darwin believed in blending inheritance, which would reduce variation over time and make it difficult for natural selection to act. This was not consistent with the observed variation in traits in populations, which did not seem to blend in a simplistic manner. Additionally, modern genetics had not yet been discovered, so many people did not understand how inheritance worked at a molecular level.

Darwin Could Not Convince Many of His Contemporaries of Natural