What is one reason scientists were not excited about mendel's work at the time?

Since you provide no options, here are several reasons why mendel's work only gained acknowledgement 16 years after his death :

- It was so far ahead of his time
- Back then, the scientific world was too focus on Darwin's theory regarding the genetic and evolution
- No one ever considered Cytological basis of heredity mendel

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Many archeologists and anthropologists disagree with dr. thorne's view.  thorne strongly believes that what many calls "homo erectus"  was in fact  homo sapiens,  and that they migrated out of africa almost 2 million years ago and dispersed throughout europe and asia. that's way different  from what scientists have always believed about the evolution of the species.