Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ˈkjuːvieɪ/; French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French...
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Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier may also refer to: Cuvier Island, an island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand Cuvier...
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Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist...
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change to the Biblical account of Noah's flood. The French scientist Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) popularised the concept of catastrophism in the early 19th...
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Scientific racism (section Georges Cuvier)
) Harris 2001, p. 87 Georges Cuvier, Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1798) p. 71 Georges Cuvier, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged...
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Polygenism (section Georges Cuvier)
antiquity, 2006, p. 105 Georges Cuvier, Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1798) p.71 Georges Cuvier (1834). The Animal Kingdom...
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'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier, and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. The term pachyderm...
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Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777, Montbéliard, Doubs – 1 March 1855) was a French zoologist. He assisted Georges Cuvier in writing Leçons d'anatomie...
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frequently-spotted beaked whales when surfacing. Cuvier's beaked whale was named Ziphius cavirostris by Georges Cuvier based on a skull fragment which he believed...
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'The Animal Kingdom') is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal...
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