Why didn't Darwin's contemporaries readily accept his theory of natural selection?
a. There was strong evidence for inheritance of acquired traits.
b. There was a lack of fossil evidence.
c. Darwin did not provide a plausible theory of heredity.
d. There was strong evidence for the principle of use and disuse.
e. Darwin did not provide evidence for artificial selection
ANSWER: c
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