作者老爷子在豆瓣和百度都查不到词条,我来粘贴一个吧:A professor of natural history at the University of Aberdeen (1899–1930), Thomson concentrated his research on soft corals. He collaborated with the biologist Sir Patrick Geddes in writing several popular books, including The Evolution of Sex (1889), Evolution (1911), Sex (1914), Biology (1924), etc.