| These taxonomic rearrangements took place before Lamarck made any public declaration of his views on species transformism. |
| But these are characteristics of life itself, irrespective of all its specific forms, which alone are concerned in transformism. |
| If it is based only on the pure theory of transformism, there is nothing explained at all. |
| I attributed the highest importance to the logical connection of anthropogeny with transformism. |
| And so we are led to the negative side of the theory of transformism, after having discussed its positive half. |
| A direct consequence of this theory of embryological origin bears on the question of species transformism. |
