cuvier
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French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)
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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a student of Cuvier.
Cuvier later admitted he had acted in haste and was mistaken.
Cuvier asked von Moll to study the fossil but was informed it could not be found.
In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, in which he named the animal a "ptero-dactyle" and refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird.