If blending inheritance were fact, this could not be possible.
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Before the discovery of Mendelian genetics, one common hypothesis was blending inheritance.
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In short, " blending inheritance is incompatible . . . with obvious fact.
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Jenkin thus concluded that natural selection could not possibly work if blending inheritance were also true.
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This model provided an alternative to blending inheritance, which was the prevailing theory at the time.
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But with blending inheritance, genetic variance would be rapidly lost, making evolution by natural selection implausible.
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But with blending inheritance, genetic variance would be rapidly lost, making evolution by natural or sexual selection implausible.
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Various hereditary mechanisms, including blending inheritance were also envisaged without being properly tested or quantified, and were later disputed.
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In addition, blending inheritance failed to explain how traits that seemingly disappeared for several generations often reasserted themselves down the line, unaltered.
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Although Darwin had privately questioned blending inheritance, he struggled with the theoretical difficulty that novel individual variations would tend to blend into a population.
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