What is Darwins view on heredity?

Answer 1

In short Charles Darwin's view of evolution is what is called as population thinking and variational evolution.He said the evolution takes place only at the population level not at the level of individuals and it is due to variation among the different members in the population of a particular species.

The five main theories put forward by Darwin are:

1) Theory of inconstancy of species

2)Theory of gradualness

3)common descent(branching evolution)

4)Multiplication of species(origin of diversity)

5)Natural selection

Answer 2

For such a cautious scientist, surprisingly wrong. He thought that the blood of the parents would mix and combine to form the characteristics of the offspring. For example, if a tall and short parent had a child, the child would be of medium height.

Not only do we know that's incorrect from genetics, it seems obvious that children have some characteristics from one parent and some from another "he has his mother's eyes or father's nose" is a common thing to say about children. Also, if a blue eyed father and a green eyed mother had a child, you wouldn't expect the child to have eyes that were bluey-green but blue or green.