It's easy to dismiss this as the perhaps well-intentioned but ultimately benighted musings of an eighteenth century scientist working in the pre-Darwinian era.
我们很容易对这个结果嗤之以鼻， 虽然这个研究的意图是好的， 毕竟这是达尔文出现前十八世纪的比较愚昧的研究。