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9 de mai. de 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.
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Há 3 dias · 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
10 de mai. de 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...
Há 3 dias · 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.
Há 15 horas · Cuvier proved that the different levels of deposits represented different time periods in the early 19th century. The surface-level deposits in the Americas contained later mammals like the megatheriid ground sloth Megatherium and the mammutid proboscidean Mammut (later known informally as a "mastodon"), which were some of the earliest-named fossil mammal genera with official taxonomic ...
Há 2 dias · Con esos datos, cuando en 1818 Cuvier viaja a Inglaterra, se reúne con ella, observa el bicho en vivo y en directo y confirma esa conclusión”, reconstruye Castaño. El autor esperó una ocasión especial para presentar su estudio, seis años después, cuando asumió formalmente como presidente de la Sociedad Geológica de Londres.
21 de mai. de 2024 · The French naturalist and zoologist, baron Georges Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832) described shortly afterwards, in 1798, an elephant from India, for which he proposed Elephas indicus, and although suggested later, this scientific name became far more populair in use than Blumenbachs, as the common name Indian elephant was more commonly ...
