August Weismann Quote

It has lately become the fashion, at least among the younger school of biologists, to attach small value to natural selection, if not, indeed, to regard it as a superseded formula; mathematical proofs are demanded or, at any rate, desired.


Translated by J. Arthur Thomson and Margaret R. Thomson, The Evolution Theory (Volume 2), Chapter XXXVI (p. 391)


It has lately become the fashion, at least among the younger school of biologists, to attach small value to natural selection, if not, indeed, to...

It has lately become the fashion, at least among the younger school of biologists, to attach small value to natural selection, if not, indeed, to...

It has lately become the fashion, at least among the younger school of biologists, to attach small value to natural selection, if not, indeed, to...

It has lately become the fashion, at least among the younger school of biologists, to attach small value to natural selection, if not, indeed, to...