According to Joseph Needham, Taoism explicitly denies the fixity of biological species and Taoist philosophers speculated that species had developed differing attributes in response to differing environments.
Segundo Joseph Needham, o taoísmo nega explicitamente o fixismo das especies biolóxicas e os filósofos taoístas especularon sobre que as especies desenvolveran diferentes atributos en resposta a diferentes ambientes.