We bandy “Victorian” about as a disparaging description of thinking and behaviour, but like unrecognised bastard sons in a three-volume novel, we are inheritors of far more than we realise. The 19th century gave us the foundations of modern psychiatric practice and intimately connected ways of analysing the world and its people. Western Victorians sought to understand life better by mapping and classifying it, generating organised taxonomical hierarchies that have remained with us. Although we are beginning to question some of the underlying assumptions of these hierarchies thanks to new genetic evidence, we still retain the concept of an animal kingdom sorted according to the post-Darwinian phylogenetics that evolved out of Carl Linnaeus' 18th century work: the categorical grouping of forms of life.

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只是典型的

我们以“维多利亚时代”作为对思想和行为的贬低描述，但就像三卷小说中未被认出的混蛋一样，我们是远远超过我们所能意识到的继承者。19世纪为我们提供了现代精神病学实践的基础，并为分析世界及其人民提供了紧密联系的方式。西维多利亚州人试图通过对生活进行制图和分类来更好地了解生活，并建立组织下来的分类学层次结构，这一层次一直存在。尽管由于新的遗传证据，我们开始质疑这些层次结构的一些基本假设，但我们仍然保留根据卡尔·林奈（Carl Linnaeus）18世纪的工作发展而来的后达尔文式系统发育分类的动物界的概念：生活形式的分组。