Edward Blyth: Perbedaan antara revisi

In a 1959 paper, [[Loren Eiseley]] claimed that "the leading tenets of Darwin's work – the struggle for existence, variation, natural selection and sexual selection – are all fully expressed in Blyth's paper of 1835".<ref>{{cite book|author=Eiseley, L. |year=1979|title=Darwin and the Mysterious Mr X|url=https://archive.org/details/darwinmysterious00eise |publisher=Dutton, New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/darwinmysterious00eise/page/55 55]|isbn=0-525-08875-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Eiseley L.|year= 1959|title= Charles Darwin, Edward Blyth, and the theory of natural selection|journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society|volume= 103|pages=94–114}}</ref> He also cited a number of rare words, similarities of phrasing, and the use of similar examples, which he regarded as evidence of Darwin's debt to Blyth. However, the subsequent discovery of Darwin's notebooks has "permitted the refutation of Eiseley's claims".<ref name=biothought>{{cite book|last=Mayr|first=Ernst|year=1984|title=The growth of biological thought|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=489|isbn=0-674-36445-7}}</ref> Eiseley argued that Blyth's influence on Darwin "begins to be discernible in the Darwin Note-book of 1836 with the curious word 'inosculate'. It is a word which has never had a wide circulation, and which is not to be found in Darwin's vocabulary before this time." This was incorrect: an 1832 letter written by Darwin commented that [[William Sharp Macleay]] "never imagined such an inosculating creature". The letter preceded Blyth's publication, and indicates that both Darwin and Blyth had independently taken the term from Macleay whose [[Quinarian system]] of classification had been popular for a time after its first publication in 1819–1820. In a mystical scheme this grouped separately created genera in "osculating" (kissing) circles.<ref>{{Cite book |last = Barlow |first = Nora, ed. |title = Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea |url = http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F1598&pageseq=82 |publisher = London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray |year = 1967 |accessdate = 28 June 2012 }}</ref>