Just hit me: fixity was a matter of definition, not generation. Whatever
the source, the item had to be what fit the definition.
Dave
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:35:39 -0700 "D. F. Siemens, Jr."
<dfsiemensjr@juno.com> writes:
> 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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