I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did historians say that naturalists generally thought about the differences in variations in a species?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Historians have noted that naturalists had long been aware that the individuals of a species differed from one another, but had generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species, that archetype being a fixed ideal in the mind of God.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: yes