第二章 乳齿象的臼齿（第12/12页）
[18] Quoted in Stephen Jay Gould，The Panda’s Thumb：More Reflections in Natural History（New York：Norton，1980），146.
[19] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，49.
[20] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，56.
[21] Rudwick，Bursting the Limits of Time，501.
[22] Charles Coleman Sellers，Mr.Peale’s Museum：Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art（New York：Norton，1980），142.
[23] Charles Willson Peale，The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family，edited by Lillian B.Miller，Sidney Hart，and David C.Ward，vol.2，pt.1（New Haven，Conn.：Yale University Press，1988），408.
[24] 乳齿象的英文是“mastodon”，来自文中居维叶给出的法文命名“mastodonte”，而“Mammut americanum”本意为“美洲猛犸”。这个名字虽然是错误的，但依据分类学的传统仍保留至今。——译者
[25] Charles Willson Peale，The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family，edited by Lillian B.Miller，Sidney Hart，and David C.Ward，vol.2，pt.2（New Haven，Conn.：Yale University Press，1988），1189.
[26] Charles Willson Peale，The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family，edited by Lillian B.Miller，Sidney Hart，and David C.Ward，vol.2，pt.2（New Haven，Conn.：Yale University Press，1988），1201.
[27] 希腊神话中欧罗巴的兄弟，杀死一条龙后，将龙齿播种，长出的武士们自相残杀，幸存者成为底比斯城的创建者。——译者
[28] Quoted in Toby A.Appel，The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate：French Biology in the Decades before Darwin（New York：Oxford University Press，1987），190.
[29] Quoted in Martin J.S.Rudwick，Worlds Before Adam：The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform（Chicago：University of Chicago Press，2008），32.
[30] 本书中“evolution”一词据当今科学界理解，统一译为“演化”。但“进化论”一词有其历史内涵，故保留不变。——译者
[31] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，217.
[32] Quoted in Richard Wellington Burkhardt，The Spirit of System：Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology（Cambridge，MA：Harvard University Press，1977），199.
[33] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，229.
[34] Rudwick，Bursting the Limits of Time，398.
[35] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，228.
[36] Georges Cuvier，“Elegy of Lamarck，”Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 20（1836）：1-22.
[37] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，190.
[38] Cuvier and Rudwick，Fossil Bones，261.