一、并非赘言中华民族有着悠久而灿烂的古代文化,它为全人类的文明发展作出过卓越的贡献。中国古代科学技术所达到的水平,曾经是“西方所望尘莫及的”,它“往往远远超过同时代的欧洲,特别是十五世纪之前更是如此。”今天,这一认识不仅早已在世界上广为流传,而且也已经成为一种被人们普遍接受的科学结论了。中国古代生物学的成就,一如中国古代科学技术的其它各个领域,无疑也是辉煌的,诸如形态学、分类学、生态学、生境学、生理学、解剖学、古生物学、以及遗传变异等各个方面,都积累了极为丰富的知识。在很长一个历史 First, it goes without saying that the Chinese nation has a long and splendid ancient culture which has made outstanding contributions to the development of civilization of all mankind. The level reached by ancient Chinese science and technology was “beyond the reach of the West,” and often “far outnumber that of contemporary Europe, especially before the turn of the fifteenth century.” Today, this notion has long existed in the world Widely circulated, and it has also become a generally accepted scientific conclusion. The achievements of ancient Chinese biology are undoubtedly splendid even in all other fields of ancient Chinese science and technology, such as morphology, taxonomy, ecology, habitatology, physiology, anatomy, paleontology, and genetic variation , Have accumulated a very rich knowledge. In a very long history