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Author abbrev. (zoology) Cuvier. Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ kyvje] ), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". [1] Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early ...
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 ...
May 9, 2024 · taxonomy. 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. Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, a town attached to the German duchy of Württemberg until the 1790s, when it passed to France.
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Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier, known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology ...
Cuvier established extinctions as a fact that any future scientific theory of life had to explain. In Darwin ‘ s theory, species that did not adapt to changing environments or withstand the competition of other species faced annihilation. Darwin did not, however, accept all of Cuvier’s ideas on extinctions.
Much has been written about Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (born 23 August 1769, died 13 May 1832), better known by his adopted name, Georges Cuvier.
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 ...
