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Mention the main objections to Darwinism.

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Objections to Darwinism: Some objections raised against Darwinism were -
(i) Darwin failed to explain the mechanism of variation.
(ii) Darwinism explains the survival of the fittest but not the arrival of the fittest.
(iii) He focused on small fluctuating variations that are mostly non-heritable.
(iv) He did not distinguish between somatic and germinal variations.
(v) He could not explain the occurence of vestigial organs, over speialization of some organs like large tasks, in extinct mammoths, oversized antlers in the extinct Irish deer, etc.,
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