Ted,
I think you're right, but you have to remember that fixity accompanied
spontaneous generation for a couple millennia at least. There were
barnacle geese in Europe, mice from rags and grain, frogs from river mud
every spring, etc.
Dave
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:51:46 -0400 "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
writes:
> I do have the strong impression that the fixity of species predates
> Linnaeus
> by millenia. Aristotle and Plato both maintained it, and if not
> always
> unquestioned it was the standard assumption up to around the
> mid-18th
> century. Linnaeus himself questioned it, incidentally, in a few
> instances
> of apparent hybridization in plants.
>
> Ted
>
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