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Jul 10, 2013 · Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) 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 important ...
Georges Cuvier s-a născut la 23 august 1769, la Montbéliard, o comunitate franceză din Munții Jura, în sânul unei familii protestante. Din 1784 până în 1788, el a mers la Academia Carolingiană din Stuttgart. După absolvire, el se duce să lucreze ca preceptor al copiilor contelui d'Héricy (care era și el protestant), în Normandia.
Georges Cuvier, reconocido como el fundador de la paleontología comparativa, fue un destacado paleontólogo y anatomista del siglo XVIII. Nacido el 23 de agosto de 1769 en Montbéliard, Francia, Cuvier se dedicó a estudiar y describir las características anatómicas de los animales para establecer relaciones comparativas entre ellos.
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, [m 1] aki korán elhunyt bátyja után nevét, a Georges-ot felvéve a Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier -re változtatta, de röviden Georges Cuvier néven ismert ( Montbéliard, 1769. augusztus 23. – Párizs, 1832. május 13.) francia zoológus, geológus, az összehasonlító ...
Lived 1769 – 1832. 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.
Povijest. Prije Darwina. Poslije Darwina. Georges Cuvier ( Montbéliard, 23. kolovoza 1769. – Paris, 13. svibnja 1832. ), bio je francuski prirodoslovac i zoolog. Radničkog podrijetla, pripadao je novoj klasi samoškolovanih znanstvenika koji su utrli svoj put na vrh akademske zajednice. Cuvier je glavni lik u istraživanjima prirodnih ...
Recall that in the 18th century Georges Cuvier worked on the stratal successions around Paris and believed that the history of life was marked by periods of creation, stasis, then obliteration. This catastrophic view of the history of life was countered by Charles Lyell's extreme uniformitarian view that very small changes added up over vast ...
