66 Life and Death, Heredity and Evolution 



of evolution. It could indeed be plausibly maintained that 

 all these results are opposed to the theory of evolution ; that 

 the logical conclusion to be drawn is that which was main- 

 tained by Jordan, the originator of this sort of work 

 namely, that there is no variation; no change from genera- 

 tion to generation ; no evolution. 



Is that indeed the conclusion to which we are driven? Is 

 that the upshot of the modern attempts to study evolution 

 experimentally; to see evolution occur? We shall take up 

 this question in our next chapter. 



