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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“For even he who does not resemble his parents is already in a certain sense a monstrosity; for in these cases Nature has in a way departed from the type”
Generation of Animals, Book IV, Ch. 3 (767b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
Aristotle places ordinary failure of resemblance and severe malformation on a single scale of departures from type.
Citation: "For even he who does not resemble his parents is already in a certain sense a monstrosity; for in these cases Nature has in a way departed from the type" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book IV, Ch. 3 (767b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q12)
