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In 1830, a dispute erupted in the halls of lÕAcad mie des Sciences in Paris between the two most prominent anatomists of the nineteenth century.…
EssayAnimals--ClassificationCuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832AnatomyBiological EvolutionEtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, commonly known as Geoffroy, studied animals, their anatomy and their embryos, and teratogens at the National Museum…
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, 1772-1844TeratologyZoologyFrench RevolutionHomology theoryEdward Drinker Cope studied fossils and anatomy in the US in the late nineteenth century. Based on his observations of skeletal morphology, Cope…
PeopleBiographyAnatomyEvolutionGeorges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris…
AnatomyAnatomy, ComparativeNatural historyExtinction (Biology)ZoologyIsidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire studied anatomy and congenital abnormalities in humans and other animals in nineteenth century France. Under the…
TeratologyAnimals--AbnormalitiesAbnormalities, HumanNatural historyAnatomyIn eighteenth century Germany, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach studied how individuals within a species vary, and to explain such variations, he proposed…
AnthropologyAnatomy, ComparativeVariation (Biology)EmbryosDevelopmental Biology