Ausencia de Lamarck y confusión en el décimo tercer párrafo de El Origen de las Especies
Empieza éste párrafo de manera muy confusa. Cada traductor sabrá lo que ha hecho con esta larga frase: With respect to what I have called the indirect action of changed conditions, namely, through the reproductive system of being affected, we may infer that variability is thus induced, partly from the fact of this system being extremely sensitive to any change in the conditions, and partly from the similarity, as Kolreuter and others have remarked, between the variability which follows from…