Debate over Darwin's work led to the rapid acceptance of the general concept of evolution, but the specific mechanism he proposed, natural selection, was not widely accepted until it was revived by developments in biology that occurred during the 1920s through the 1940s.
O debate sobre os traballos de Darwin levou a unha rápida aceptación do concepto xeral de evolución, pero o mecanismo específico que el propuxera, a selección natural, non foi amplamente aceptado ata que foi revitalizado polos descubrimentos en bioloxía que ocorreron durante as décadas de 1920 a 1940.