. The chordates. Chordata. History of Comparative Anatomy 343. Fig. 277. Cuvier (1769-1832) at the zenith of his power. (Cour- tesy, Locy: "Biology and Its Makers," New York, Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) in Paris on February 15, 1830, is one of the classics of biology. Cuvier had the popular side of the argument and the public opinion of his time awarded him the victory over the evolutionists. Meanwhile Goethe, working in Germany, was quite apart from the intellectual turmoil of Paris. He appar- ently did not even know of Lamarck's writings. In 1790 he published his "Metamorphosi
. The chordates. Chordata. History of Comparative Anatomy 343. Fig. 277. Cuvier (1769-1832) at the zenith of his power. (Cour- tesy, Locy: "Biology and Its Makers," New York, Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) in Paris on February 15, 1830, is one of the classics of biology. Cuvier had the popular side of the argument and the public opinion of his time awarded him the victory over the evolutionists. Meanwhile Goethe, working in Germany, was quite apart from the intellectual turmoil of Paris. He appar- ently did not even know of Lamarck's writings. In 1790 he published his "Metamorphosis of ; His work as an anatomist was concerned mainly with comparative osteology. He gave special attention to the skull and is credited with the discovery of the ob- scure premaxillary bones in the human upper jaw. His ideas of "unity of type," of vestigial organs, and of the derivation of "higher" from "lower" forms of life run closely parallel to, and in some points anticipate, the ideas of the French evolutionists. Oken gave to biology some sound morphology and much fantastic speculation. He was the most radical of the transcendentalists who sought for unity of plan, or uniformity, not only among various organ- isms as wholes, but among the parts of an individual organism. They not only sought, but insisted upon finding, uniformity. In some in- stances uniformity is an inescapable fact. In number and general rela- tions of bones, the skeletons of the pectoral and pelvic appendages are alike. The vertebrae of the neck, trunk, and tail all possess the same general structure, differing merely as to the number and degree of development of the various spines or processes which vertebrae may have. But the uniformity discovered in the "vertebral theory" of the skull is by no means obvious. Yet it is a possible view of the skull. Just as a typical vertebra possesses a solid ventral centrum surmounted by a bony arch (neural arch) en
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