作者简介 T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), the son of a maths teacher. At 21, Huxley signed on as assistant surgeon on HMS Rattlesnake, a Royal Navy ship assigned to chart the seas around Australia and New Guinea. During the voyage, he collected and studied marine invertebrates, sending his papers back to London. When he returned he found that the papers had been read and admired and in I851 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He met Charles Darwin in around 1856 and was won over by his theory of evolution by natural selection, which provoked a storm of controversy because it challenged the Christian belief that God created life on Earth. Huxley's repeated and passionate defence of the book earned him the nickname of "Darwin's Bulldog".
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INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I HUXLEY AND DARWIN II THE BATTLE FOR EVOLUTION PREFACE I EVOLUTION AND ETHICS I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV II EVOLUTION AND ETHICS III SCIENCE AND MORALS I II III
主编推荐 T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), the son of a maths teacher. At 21, Huxley signed on as assistant surgeon on HMS Rattlesnake, a Royal Navy ship assigned to chart the seas around Australia and New Guinea. During the voyage, he collected and studied marine invertebrates, sending his papers back to London. When he returned he found that the papers had been read and admired and in I851 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He met Charles Darwin in around 1856 and was won over by his theory of evolution by natural selection, which provoked a storm of controversy because it challenged the Christian belief that God created life on Earth. Huxley's repeated and passionate defence of the book earned him the nickname of "Darwin's Bulldog".
精彩内容 Here also comes in that general "parallelism between the order of succession of animals and plants in geological times, and the gradation among their living representatives" from low to highly organized, from simple and general to complex and specialized forms; also "the parallelism between the order of succession of animals in geological times and the changes their living representatives undergo during their embryological growth," as if the world were one prolonged gestation. Modern science has much insisted on this parallelism, and to a certain extent is allowed to have made it out. All these things, which conspire to prove that the ancient and the recent forms of life "are somehow intimately connected together in one grand system," equally conspire to suggest that the connection is one similar or analogous to generation. Surely no naturalist can be blamed for entering somewhat confidently upon a field of speculative inquiry which here opens so invitingly; nor need former premature endeavors and failures utterly dishearten him. All these things, it may naturally be said, go to explain the order, not the mode, of the incoming of species. But they all do tend to bring out the generalization expressed by Mr. Wallace in the formula that "every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with preexisting closely-allied species." Not, however, that this is proved even of existing species as a matter of general fact. It is obviously impossible to prove anything of the kind. But we must concede that the known facts strongly suggest such an inference.
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