Thus it is inevitable that we ask ourselves if his Zoological Philosophy was indebted to typological thought like the work of two of his contemporaries, his patron Buffon and his critic Cuvier, or whether it shows some of the taxonomic individualism promoted by Darwinism.
Por eso, es inevitable preguntarse si su Filosofía zoológica era deudora de un pensamiento tipológico como el que encontramos en sus dos contemporáneos, su protector Buffon y su detractor Cuvier, o si en ella ya encontramos algo del individualismo taxonómico propiciado por el darwinismo.