Responding to Fleming Jenkin's review of On the Origin of Species, he argued that pangenesis would permit the preservation of some favourable variations in a population so that they wouldn't die out through blending.
Respondendo á revisión de Fleming Jenkin de On the Origin of Species, argumentou que a panxénese permitiría a preservación dalgunhas variacións favorables nunha poboación para que non se extinguisen por mestura.