Talk:Albert von Kölliker

poorly written
This source:"Vucinich, Alexander (1988). Darwin in Russian Thought. University of California Press. p. 137. ISBN 0520062833." seems not to be a very good (I mean clear thought and well written) book to be used as a fundamental basis for this article. That book is not even about kölliker, nor about "heterogenesis". That book is actually a long compiled list of different alternative or antagonostic approaches by a multitude of people towards the (then relatively new) idea of darvinism. That book is not interested to account for what these various opposing ideas were, it is mostly quotes by contemporaries who either cared for and understood those opposing ideas or just one of the above or neither. In other words this article is too heavily based on a book, that never was an informative source of the articles subject, but instead quotes some other sources that had their own relation to the articles subject in one way or another.

This sentence:"According to Vucinich(1988), the non-Darwinian evolution theory of Kölliker tied "organic transformism to three general ideas, all contrary to Darwin's view: the multiple origin of living forms, the internal causes of variation, and "sudden leaps" (heterogenesis) in the evolutionary process."[7]" can be easily misunderstood as saying that heterogenesis means "evolutional change characterized by sudden leaps".

Most likely heterogenesis is only a fancy word for "multiple origin(s)" of biological life, but those quotations are not very clear on that. (80.98.114.70 (talk) 19:06, 11 February 2016 (UTC)).