I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did On Origin of Species avoid in order to raise its chance of being taken seriously?
All the background I'm provided with is that "James T. Costa said that because the book was an abstract produced in haste in response to Wallace's essay, it was more approachable than the big book on natural selection Darwin had been working on, which would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no