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What if Huxley performed Mendel's pea plant crossbreeding or similar experiments and disproved blending inheritance? Since the prevailing idea of blending inheritance was one of the major blocks to early acceptance of evolution and natural selection (and something Darwin struggled with explaining), how would this affect the overall acceptance of the theory of evolution and how would it impact the direction of the field of biology?