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'''The doctrine of correlation of parts''' (by some authors referred to also as [[Natural Law|law]] or [[theory]] of correlation of parts) that precludes [[organic]] [[evolution]] was coined by French naturalist [[Georges Cuvier]] based on his studies of animal structures.<ref name="Larson">{{cite book |title=Evolution: The remarkable History of a Scientific Theory |author=Edward J. Larson |publisher=Modern Library Chronicles |place=New York, USA |year= 2006|pages=19 |isbn=978-0-812-968491 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GbKjmAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:0812968492&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w4n_Uqe4McnD4gSN0oDwDA&redir_esc=y}}</ref> It states that every biological being forms an organized [[closed system]], in which all the parts correspond mutually, and contribute to the same definitive action by a reciprocal reaction. None of its parts can change without the simultaneous change of the other interdependent parts. Consequently, each of them, when examined separately, indicates and infers all the others.<ref>{{cite book |title=Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupedes ("Researches on the Bones of Fossil Vertebrates") |author=George Cuvier |chapter=Discours préliminaire ("Preliminary Discourse") |year=1812 |page=217|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ucf2YlhnX4UC&source=gbs_book_similarbooks |language=French}}</ref> Cuvier maintained, based on his research, that anatomical interactions within an animal are so delicately balanced that any meaningful change in one would make the whole being incapable of survival, a fortiori since there is observed a complex interdependence among species individuals of which also appear to breed true to type. His inevitable conclusion was that new species cannot evolve from old ones. The weight of authority of this doctrine strongly reinforced the [[Creationism|creationist]] position.<ref name="Larson"/>     

'''The doctrine of correlation of parts''' (by some authors referred to also as [[Natural Law|law]] or [[theory]] of correlation of parts) that precludes [[organic]] [[evolution]] was coined by French naturalist [[Georges Cuvier]] based on his studies of animal structures.<ref name="Larson">{{cite book |title=Evolution: The remarkable History of a Scientific Theory |author=Edward J. Larson |publisher=Modern Library Chronicles |place=New York, USA |year= 2006|pages=19 |isbn=978-0-812-968491 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbKjmAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:0812968492&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w4n_Uqe4McnD4gSN0oDwDA&redir_esc=y}}</ref> It states that every biological being forms an organized [[closed system]], in which all the parts correspond mutually, and contribute to the same definitive action by a reciprocal reaction. None of its parts can change without the simultaneous change of the other interdependent parts. Consequently, each of them, when examined separately, indicates and infers all the others.<ref>{{cite book |title=Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupedes ("Researches on the Bones of Fossil Vertebrates") |author=George Cuvier |chapter=Discours préliminaire ("Preliminary Discourse") |year=1812 |page=217|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucf2YlhnX4UC&source=gbs_book_similarbooks |language=French}}</ref> Cuvier maintained, based on his research, that anatomical interactions within an animal are so delicately balanced that any meaningful change in one would make the whole being incapable of survival, a fortiori since there is observed a complex interdependence among species individuals of which also appear to breed true to type. His inevitable conclusion was that new species cannot evolve from old ones. The weight of authority of this doctrine strongly reinforced the [[Creationism|creationist]] position.<ref name="Larson"/>     

==Historical background==

==Historical background==