He did so by applying to fossils the principles of comparative anatomy, asking what light the body shapes of living animals could cast on the shapes of creatures from the past.

他将比较解剖学原则应用于化石上，探寻现存动物的体型是否有助于推断过去生物的体型。

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French anatomist, celebrated as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology.

法国解剖学家，对比解剖学、古生物学的著名创始者。

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Systematic and Evolutional Botany, whose main field is the plant comparative anatomy, is one of the important subjects among the mordent plant Science.

系统与进化植物学是当今植物科学中的主流学科之一，植物比较解剖学是该学科的重要组成部分。

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"Comparative anatomy" - in which, for example, the forelimbs of a number of fossils are compared to establish which are most closely related - was the entire toolbox for the earliest palaeontologists.

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