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   What is the implication of Cuvier's theory?

   • Therefore, an implication of Cuvier’s theory is that the forces acting on the earth must have changed periodically throughout earth’s history. Because Cuvier never identified these forces, many individuals believed these extinctions could have been the result of biblical floods or acts of god.

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   What was Cuvier's theory of evolution?

   • In Cuvier’s time, the Darwin and Wallace theory of evolution by natural selection lay decades in the future. Theories of evolution, however, had been advanced by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and others. Cuvier argued that species did not evolve; they came into existence or became extinct during catastrophic events.

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   Who is Georges Cuvier?

   • New York: Routledge, 2007. Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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   Why is Georges Cuvier regarded as the father of paleontology?

   • Georges Cuvier is regarded as the father of paleontology. He convinced a skeptical scientific world of the reality of species extinction. He used comparative anatomy, a science he pioneered, to reconstruct extinct animals - for example, he established from drawings that a fossil he named pterodactyl was a flying reptile.

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   In his Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1813) Cuvier proposed that now-extinct species had been wiped out by periodic catastrophic flooding events. In this way, Cuvier became the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. [3]

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   The fossil evidence led him to propose that periodically the Earth went through sudden changes, each of which could wipe out a number of species. Cuvier established extinctions as a fact that any future scientific theory of life had to explain.

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   May 9, 2024 · In denying evolution, Cuvier disagreed with the views of his colleague Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who published his theory of evolution in 1809, and eventually also with Geoffroy, who in 1825 published evidence concerning the evolution of crocodiles.

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   Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) Without a doubt, Georges Cuvier possessed one of the finest minds in history. Almost single-handedly, he founded vertebrate paleontology as a scientific discipline and created the comparative method of organismal biology, an incredibly powerful tool. It was Cuvier who firmly established the fact of the extinction of ...

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   A comic depicting the implications of attributing mass extinction events to world wide flooding. Catastrophism was a theory developed by Georges Cuvier based on paleontological evidence in the Paris Basin. Cuvier was there when he observed something peculiar about the fossil record.

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   Georges Cuvier is regarded as the father of paleontology. He convinced a skeptical scientific world of the reality of species extinction. He used comparative anatomy, a science he pioneered, to reconstruct extinct animals - for example, he established from drawings that a fossil he named pterodactyl was a flying reptile.

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    Jul 10, 2013 · By: Valerie Racine. Published: 2013-07-10. Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Léopold Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scholars recognize Cuvier as a founder of modern comparative anatomy, and as an ...