Question

give an account of pre-Darwinian evolutionary thinking

Answer 1

Pre Darwinian evolutionary concepts were Lamarckism and Saltation. Lamarck believed that evolution was linked to use and disuse of organs . He cited the example of long neck of giraffe. Saltation theory was given by Hugo de Vries according to which mutations are responsible for evolution

Answer 2

Pre-Darwinian Evolution

Explanation:

• The acceptance of natural evolution is a basic piece of the cutting edge logical clarification of the normal world
• Most researchers and significant religions in the Western World have since a long time ago consolidated it into their comprehension of nature and mankind  
• The hypothesis of development by common determination, first defined in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, is the procedure by which living beings change after some time because of changes in heritable physical or social traits