The one new point which appears to have struck many readers is, " That natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages of useful structures" .

似乎让许多读者印象深刻的一个新观点是， “自然选择无法解释有用结构的初期阶段” 。

Holgrave gazed at her, as he rolled up his manuscript, and recognized an incipient stage of that curious psychological condition which, as he had himself told Phoebe, he possessed more than an ordinary faculty of producing.

霍尔格雷夫一边卷起他的手稿，一边凝视着她，认出了那种奇怪的心理状况的初期阶段，正如他自己告诉菲比的那样，他拥有超过普通生产能力的能力。