📚 node [[charles darwin]]
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    • based his theory on two core ideas:
    • all living organisms are related by common ancestry
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    • Darwin knew not of a remedy to a problem of his theory: he thought heredity worked so that offspring received 50% of the traits of each ancestor, their offspring 25%, theirs 12.5%, etc.
      • Darwin saw this as a flaw as it showed that positive traits would disappear very quickly after arising and being selected by chance.
      • [[Mendel]] of course discovered the units of heredity, [[genes]].
      • [[Mendel]] wrote to [[Darwin]] ()!), and allegedly Darwin didn't read the letter because it was in German and had too much math on it (!).
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