Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. Georges Cuvier
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe. Georges Cuvier
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe.
This is because the number,direction,and shape of the bones that compose each part of an animal’s body are always in a necessary relation to all the other parts,in such a way that—up to a point—one can infer the whole from any one of them. Georges Cuvier
This is because the number,direction,and shape of the bones that compose each part of an animal’s body are always in a necessary relation to all the other parts,in such a way that—up to a point—one can infer the whole from any one of them.
Today comparative anatomy has reached such a point of perfection that, after inspecting a single bone, one can often determine the class, and sometimes even the genus of the animal to which it belonged. Georges Cuvier
Today comparative anatomy has reached such a point of perfection that, after inspecting a single bone, one can often determine the class, and sometimes even the genus of the animal to which it belonged.