Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris, France.
C R Biol. 2010 Feb;333(2):99-106. doi: 10.1016/j.crvi.2009.11.009. Epub 2010 Feb 6.
In this essay, I discuss the origin of Charles Darwin's interest in cirripedes (barnacles). Indeed, he worked intensively on cirripedes during the years in which he was developing the theory that eventually led to the publication of The Origin of Species. In the light of our present knowledge, I present Darwin's achievements in the morphology, systematics and biology of these small marine invertebrates, and also his mistakes. I suggest that the word that sheds the most light here is homology, and that his mistakes were due to following Richard Owen's method of determining homologies by reference to an ideal archetype. I discuss the ways in which his studies on cirripedes influenced the writing of The Origin.
在这篇文章中，我讨论了查尔斯·达尔文对藤壶（甲壳类动物）的兴趣的起源。事实上，在他发展最终导致《物种起源》出版的理论的那些年里，他曾对藤壶进行了深入的研究。根据我们目前的知识，我介绍了达尔文在这些小型海洋无脊椎动物的形态学、系统学和生物学方面的成就，以及他的错误。我认为，在这里最能说明问题的词是同源性，他的错误是由于遵循理查德·欧文的通过参考理想原型来确定同源性的方法。我讨论了他对藤壶的研究如何影响《物种起源》的写作。
