Later, the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel would convince Huxley that comparative anatomy and palaeontology could be used to reconstruct evolutionary genealogies.
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.
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克尔使赫胥黎
信，比较解剖学
物学可以用来重建进化族谱。
学系主任同事莫菲教授的女儿订
了。
为他将对比
学的规则应用于化石样本并探寻现存动物的体形对古代动物的体形有什么样的启发借鉴作用。
