In a funeral eulogy, this man claimed that one of his rivals mingled fanciful conceptions withscience and left behind laboriously constructed, vast edifices on imaginary foundations.
In a funeral eulogy, this man claimed that one of his rivals mingled fanciful conceptions withscience and left behind laboriously constructed, vast edifices on imaginary foundations. Based onlyon a drawing by Cosimo Collini, this scientist identified a pterosaur as a flying reptile and named it a"ptero-dactyle". One of his most important books was Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds.This scientist stated that if an animal's teeth were adapted for a certain type of food, then so must itsdigestive system, which was one of the bases for his "Principle of Correlation of Parts". This man'sefforts led to (*) extinction being accepted as a scientific theory. He founded the field of vertebratepaleontology and pioneered the use of the comparative method. For 10 points, name this biologist andgeologist best known for his advocation of catastrophism and opposition to Lamarck.
In a funeral eulogy, this man claimed that one of his rivals mingled fanciful conceptions withscience and left behind laboriously constructed, vast edifices on imaginary foundations.
Georges Cuvier