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May 9, 2024 · Georges Cuvier (born August 23, 1769, Montbéliard [now in France]—died May 13, 1832, Paris, France) was a French zoologist and statesman, who established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · At first the scientific community – and notably Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) – opposed the idea of evolution. The idea that laws control nature and society gained vast popular audiences with George Combe's The Constitution of Man of 1828 and with the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation of 1844.
23 hours ago · At the end of the 18th century Georges Cuvier's work established comparative anatomy as a scientific discipline and, by proving that some fossil animals resembled no living ones, demonstrated that animals could become extinct, leading to the emergence of paleontology.
3 days ago · Georges Cuvier strongly disputed such ideas, holding that unrelated, fixed species showed similarities that reflected a design for functional needs. His palæontological work in the 1790s had established the reality of extinction, which he explained by local catastrophes , followed by repopulation of the affected areas by other species.
- Charles Darwin
- 1859
May 10, 2024 · “Crucial to dispensing with the idea that it was a fossil of a giant human were the letters between Mary Morland, a professional paleo-illustrator and Buckland’s wife, and Frenchman Georges...
May 7, 2024 · In 1796 George Cuvier described a ground sloth skeleton of Megatherium ("Great Beast") from South America. Cuvier saw characters in the bones and teeth of these fossils that were shared with the group of living animals such as tree sloths, anteaters and armadillos.
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May 7, 2024 · The woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus primigenius) is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch, and was identified as an extinct species of elephant 1796 by French biologist Georges Cuvier. Mammoth remains had long been known in Asia before they became known to Europeans in the 17th century.
