胡适曾在“许多文章里不断散布庸俗进化论的思想”里,先后经艾思奇、杨锺健两位先生揭发了并批判了胡适实用主义的反科学的庸俗进化论,在哲学史的研究上,胡适把他那一套庸俗进化论歪曲庄子书中的物化论,因而附会出一种妙论,即所谓“庄子书中的生物进化论”来。“中国哲学史大纲”卷上第九篇“庄子”有一节论“庄子书中的生物进化论”,钞录庄子至乐篇末一段关于“百岁髑髅”的谈话原文百余字如下: “种有儿:得水则为舃。得水土之际则为(?)。蠙之衣生于陵屯则为陵(?),陵舃得郁栖则为乌足,乌足之根为蛴螬,其叶为胡蝶,胡蝶胥也化而为虫,生于灶下,其状若脱,其各为 Hu Shih once published and criticized Hu Shi’s pragmatic anti-science vulgar theory of evolution in his “Many Phrases Continue to Disperse the Philosophical Thought of Vulgar Evolution” His vulgar theory of evolution distorts the theory of materialization in Chuang-tzu’s book, and therefore comes out with a kind of magical theory called “biological evolutionism in Chuang-tzu”. The ninth volume of Outline of Chinese Philosophy Volume Zhuangzi has a section on “The Evolution of Biology in Chuang-tzu Books”, and the original text of the talk about Chuang-tzu from Zhuangzi to the end of the music section of the book is more than a hundred words as follows: "There are children: water is 舃 .When the soil and water is ()). 蠙 of the clothes were born in Ling Tuen is the mausoleum (?)蛴 螬, the leaves of the butterfly, Hu Die Xu also turned into insects, was born in the kitchen, its shape if off, its each