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Mention the main objections to Darwinism.

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(i) Darwin fails to explain the mechanismof variation.
(ii) Darwinism explain the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest .
(iii) Darwing focused on non-heritable small fluctuating variations .
(iv) He was not able to distinguish somative variations from genetic variatios.
(v) The occurrence of vestigial organs and over specialization of some organs like large tusks in estinct mannoths, oversized antlers in the extincal Irish deer could not be explained by Darwinism .
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