| 单词 | transmutation theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmastransmutation theory C1. attributive, as transmutation doctrine, transmutation theory. ΚΠ 1860 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. (1870) xii. 306 The so-called ‘transmutation’ hypothesis considers that all existing species are the result of the modification of pre-existing species, and those of their predecessors, by agencies similar to those which at the present day produce varieties and races. 1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. i. 4 The theory which, through Darwin, has been placed at the head of all our knowledge of nature, is usually called the Doctrine of Filiation, or the Theory of Descent. Others term it the Transmutation Theory. < as lemmas |
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