Imprecise and faulty taxonomic identification of the biological objects of many ecological and experimental studies renders these studies irreproducible.Incomplete identification to the species level and excessive use...Imprecise and faulty taxonomic identification of the biological objects of many ecological and experimental studies renders these studies irreproducible.Incomplete identification to the species level and excessive use of vernacular species names are additional problems.Good science must be able to be falsified.I recommend that publications and granting agencies use and mention the names of the zoologists or botanists who identified the species.Voucher specimens should be marked and deposited in scientific museums for future checking.展开更多
Lamarck,a son of the age of natural philosophy and revolutionary ideas,turned to zoology,the field in which he made his major impact,in his old age.By then,the world had already shifted towards a different intellectua...Lamarck,a son of the age of natural philosophy and revolutionary ideas,turned to zoology,the field in which he made his major impact,in his old age.By then,the world had already shifted towards a different intellectual atmosphere and,due to this anachronism,he was snubbed and even ridiculed by the mainstream neo-Darwinists.Yet his basic ideas about the active role of organisms in and the progressive unraveling of evolution stubbornly survived along the academic fringes and,more importantly,among the humanistic writers.Recent developments in genetic inheritance,embryology,immunology and behavioral studies vindicate,at least in part,the 200-year-old vision of Lamarck.展开更多
文摘Imprecise and faulty taxonomic identification of the biological objects of many ecological and experimental studies renders these studies irreproducible.Incomplete identification to the species level and excessive use of vernacular species names are additional problems.Good science must be able to be falsified.I recommend that publications and granting agencies use and mention the names of the zoologists or botanists who identified the species.Voucher specimens should be marked and deposited in scientific museums for future checking.
文摘Lamarck,a son of the age of natural philosophy and revolutionary ideas,turned to zoology,the field in which he made his major impact,in his old age.By then,the world had already shifted towards a different intellectual atmosphere and,due to this anachronism,he was snubbed and even ridiculed by the mainstream neo-Darwinists.Yet his basic ideas about the active role of organisms in and the progressive unraveling of evolution stubbornly survived along the academic fringes and,more importantly,among the humanistic writers.Recent developments in genetic inheritance,embryology,immunology and behavioral studies vindicate,at least in part,the 200-year-old vision of Lamarck.
