As long as museums and universities send out expeditions…
““As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as long as anatomists desire a broad comparative basis human for anatomy, as long as even a few students feel a strong curiosity to learn about the course of evolution and relationships of animals, the old problems of taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution will gradually reassert themselves even in competition with brilliant and highly fruitful laboratory studies in cytology, genetics and physiological chemistry.””
About This Quote
This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.
Continued scientific expeditions, curiosity, and comparative studies keep taxonomy and evolution relevant despite lab advances.
In simple terms: Fieldwork and curiosity sustain evolutionary science.
Key Takeaway
Support exploratory research.
Themes
science
biology
evolution
taxonomy
curiosity
fieldwork
Mood
inquisitive
optimistic
scholarly
Type
Adventure:0
Anatomy:0
Animals:0
Biology:1
Cytology:0
Data:0
Evolution:1
Genetics:0
Laboratory:0
Museum:0
Science:1
Study:0
Taxonomy:1
Universities:0
Phylogeny:1
Anatomists Desire:0
Anatomists:0
Taxonomy Phylogeny:0
Long Anatomists:0
When to use this quote
- museum work
- academic research
- student projects
- science funding
Key Concepts
comparative anatomy
phylogenetics
interdisciplinary study
Questions to Reflect On
- How does fieldwork complement lab research?
- What motivates students to study evolution?
A Different Perspective
May be under‑funded in modern academia.