The Making of Species
The Making of Species
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物种的形成
作者：
R. Meldola
如果这项工作没有像它的声明让我们期待的那样带来生物科学的革命，这并不是因为作者或他们的出版商缺乏信心。我们（通过广告）得知，除了德弗里斯的某篇著名论文外，这本书是“自达尔文的《物种起源》以来对生物科学的最重要贡献”。我们还被告知，“作者毫不费力地推翻了当今生物学家最珍视的一些理论——特别是鸟类的模仿和识别标记理论”，“他们所汇集的事实破坏了新达尔文主义者在自然选择理论基础上建立起来的庞大的上层建筑。”从序言中摘录几段就足以揭示最近对自然选择理论的攻击的基调：-
IF this work fails to bring about that revolution in biological science which its announcement led us to expect, it is not for lack of confidence on the part of the authors or their publisher. We were informed (by advertisement) that with the exception of a certain well-known treatise by de Vries this book was “the most important contribution to biological science which has appeared since Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.’” We were further told that “the authors have no difficulty in demolishing some of the theories which are most cherished by biologists of to-day—notably those of mimicry and recognition markings in birds,” and that “the facts which they have brought together undermine the whole of the massive superstructure which Neo-Darwinians have erected on the foundation of the theory of natural selection.” A few extracts from the preface will suffice to reveal the tone which pervades this latest attack upon the theory of natural selection:—