EVIDENCE ON EVOLUTION 



I. FROM COMPARATIVE 

 ANATOMY 



An important body of evidence that 

 bears on the evolutionary problem 

 comes from the field of comparative 

 anatomy. A little over a century ago 

 the school of comparative anatomy 

 was founded by Cuvier (i 769-1 832), 

 who, though an anti-evolutionist, 

 showed that animals in their structure 

 were not immensely diverse, but con- 

 formed to general plans or types of 

 organization. From this standpoint 

 each animal could be said to represent 

 its type, subject to such modifications 

 as its special mode of life called for. 

 Thus under the enormous diversity 

 of animal forms there was in reality 

 a more or less hidden uniformity. 

 This principle of type organization 



