tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8386055846297828307.post3781087404972684984..comments2024-03-28T07:34:49.133+01:00Comments on The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks: Buffon's genealogical ideasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8386055846297828307.post-62250547718096021612015-07-30T19:56:59.193+02:002015-07-30T19:56:59.193+02:00A key point to understand how Buffon could at the ...A key point to understand how Buffon could at the same time believe in the transmutation of domesticated organisms and the fixity of species in the wild is, I think, that Buffon conceived the transmutations as degenerations from the ideal type, and that they could never survive in nature, without the protection from humans. <br /><br />It's really a very small step from there to Matthew or Darwin. Joachim Dagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985198925581721229noreply@blogger.com