By 1850, a lot of relevant facts about plant and animal breeding were widely known. If one person was slow to join the dots, some-one else would scoop them (and nearly did!). Doubting evolution because of doubts about Charles Darwin is a bit like disbelieving infinitesimal calculus because you don't like Germans and Leibniz was a German; you should only trust English mathematics :-)
happytoes 0 points 3 years ago
Don't forget Alfred Wallace. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/alfred-wallace/
By 1850, a lot of relevant facts about plant and animal breeding were widely known. If one person was slow to join the dots, some-one else would scoop them (and nearly did!). Doubting evolution because of doubts about Charles Darwin is a bit like disbelieving infinitesimal calculus because you don't like Germans and Leibniz was a German; you should only trust English mathematics :-)