species-mongering

Updated: April 30, 2025

To any biologist whose studies had carried him beyond mere species-mongering in 1850, one-half of Lamarck's arguments were obsolete and the other half erroneous, or defective, in virtue of omitting to deal with the various classes of evidence which had been brought to light since his time.

Thomas Henry Huxley - On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'