What if Darwin had read the papers that Mendel sent to him on his theory of heredity? Would the theory of evolution be accepted much sooner with Mendel's ideas included in Darwin's work, therefore providing a way for natural selection to work?
The obstacle that Darwin's work faced was not merely in the fact that he proposed a potential mechanism with an abstract theory that could be regarded as a model of biology, but that he asserted that evolution was the way that all life on earth came about, patently contradicting the prevailing religious ideas at the time.
Heredity would not have solved this problem.
What if Darwin had read the papers that Mendel sent to him on his theory of heredity? Would the theory of evolution be accepted much sooner with Mendel's ideas included in Darwin's work, therefore providing a way for natural selection to work?