Studies in the evolution of animals / by E. Bonavia.

  • Emanuel Bonavia
Date:
1895
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Credit: Studies in the evolution of animals / by E. Bonavia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' Evolution is the most striking feature of modern scientific thought, hence all that terms itself evolution must be scientific—such seems to be the logic of the average reviewer, and, we regret to say it, of some men of science who ought to know better. The fact is that the word evolution has been so terribly abused, first by the biologists, then by pseudo-scientists, and lastly by the public, that it has become a cant term to cover any muddle-headed reasoning, which would utterly fail to justify itself had it condescended to apply the rule of three. A variety of ill-described and ill-appreciated factors of change have all been classed together and entitled the theory of evolution.' Socialism and Natural Selection, by Karl Pearson, Fortnightly Review, July 1894, p. i.
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