We see this in the plainest manner by the fact that all the most eminent palaeontologists, namely Cuvier, Owen, Agassiz.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the origin of species] Reference

In a bid to train them, the crocodiles, which are called Cuvier's dwarf caiman, are given food as a prize if they react in the right way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

With the end of this period and the advent of a more philosophical type of naturalist, such as Cuvier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

The granite trimmings, which are rather too profuse, are carved with the names of eminent scientists, such as Cuvier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Virginia] Reference

Bichat and Cuvier later developed with much profit, between the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Another point of resemblance between Cuvier and von Baer was that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The Museum of Comparative Anatomy, also, was the labor of Cuvier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

Berzelius, of the systems of Hutton or Werner, of Liebig or Cuvier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Cuvier, and which I believe to be peculiar to the whales with teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

Cuvier was a supporter of the theological doctrine of special creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier knew, for example, that each muscle fibre has its own nerve fibre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier and Geoffroy are the greatest representatives of these opposing views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The problem as Geoffroy and Cuvier understood it was not an evolutionary one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier thought in terms of organs, not in terms of "materials of organisation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier accepted such embryological evidence as an aid in determining homologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Museum was the acknowledged anatomical centre, and that Cuvier was its acknowledged head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier, who generally lavishes upon the philosopher the most extravagant praise, sneers at this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers of Biology] Reference

Cuvier, like Aristotle, Buffon, and Bichat, makes the heart the centre of the "vegetative" organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

A philosophical Cuvier, from one act or condition of tyranny, will supply the rest of the organism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Cuvier has no theory to account for the variety of form: he contents himself with a classification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

If we turn to the later writings of Cuvier we find the essential criticism expressed in similar terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

We were pointed out the house where the celebrated Cuvier lived, and which was his favorite residence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

His general position is that of the "statical" teleology -- to use Driesch's term -- of Kant and Cuvier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier was perhaps the greatest of comparative anatomists; his work is, in the best sense of the word, classical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

It is important to note that Cuvier puts function before structure, and infers from function what the organ will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier, Swainson, and indeed the great ornithologists of every country, exhausted the words of panegyric in his praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

This recognition of a possible development of new organs to meet new functions shows unmistakably the influence of Cuvier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Geoffroy against Cuvier, who considered that diversity of form is limited only by the principle of the adaptation of parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

So, too, the embryologists after Cuvier often came across instances of the special formation of parts to meet temporary needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Cuvier, assigns to him along with other primates, a diet consisting of nuts, fruits, soft grains, tender shoots and succulent roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference

Cuvier, though essentially a student of adult structure, did recognise the importance of embryology; following up some observations of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Both Cuvier and von Baer, by the very sanity of their views, found themselves in partial opposition to the theories current in their time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The first is associated with the great names of Aristotle, Cuvier, and von Baer, and leads easily to the more open vitalism of Lamarck and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference