Agassiz never accepted evolution; his followers did, but they continued his program of searching for orderly patterns in nature, which they considered to be consistent with divine providence, and preferred evolutionary mechanisms like neo-Lamarckism and orthogenesis that would be likely to produce them.
Agassiz nunca aceptou a evolución, pero os seus seguidores si, aínda que continuaron o seu programa de buscar padróns ordenados na natureza, que consideraron consistentes coa idea da divina providencia, e preferiron mecanismos evolutivos como o neolamarckismo e a ortoxénese que probablemente a producían.