Not because their natural history was short-sighted; but because their questions, which were very far from Darwin's central questions, and the resources they possessed to answer them, which differed from Darwin's, did not call for the complete establishment of that truly historical perspective.
Pero no porque la historia natural de esos naturalistas haya sido miope; sino porque sus preguntas, que en general no eran las que fueron centrales para Darwin, y los recursos con los que se contaba para responderlas, que tampoco eran los de Darwin, no exigían la completa instauración de esa perspectiva verdaderamente histórica.