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Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
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 Evolution
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
Georges 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)Zoology
De Formatione Ovi et Pulli (1621), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Sep 30, 2008
The embryological treatise De formatione ovi et pulli (On the Formation of the Egg and of the Chick) was written by anatomist and embryologist…
LiteraturePublicationsOvaAnatomy
De Formato Foetu (c. 1600), by Girolamo Fabrici
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Aug 27, 2008
The embryological treatise De formato foetu (The Formed Fetus) was written by anatomist and embryologist Girolamo Fabrici. There is no conclusive…
LiteratureFabricius, ab Aquapendente, approximately 1533-1619FetusPublicationsAnatomy
Epithelium
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Oct 17, 2012
Frederik Ruysch, working in the Netherlands, introduced the term epithelia in the third volume of his Thesaurus Anatomicus in 1703. Ruysch created…
EpitheliumRuysch, Frederik, 1638-1731AnatomyCells--MorphologyHis, Wilhelm, 1831-1904
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844)
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Aug 05, 2013
Etienne 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 theory
Biological Clocks and the Formation of Human Tooth Enamel
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Jan 31, 2013
Tooth enamel contains relics of its formation process, in the form of microstructures, which indicate the incremental way in which it forms. These…
EvolutionteethDental EnamelHuman EvolutionAnatomy
John Hunter (1728–1793)
By: Nevada Wagoner
| Published: Feb 17, 2017
John Hunter studied human reproductive anatomy, and in eighteenth century England, performed one of the earliest described cases of artificial…
Artificial InseminationDeadBody snatchingPregnancyAnatomy
Ectoderm
By: Kate MacCord
| Published: Dec 02, 2013
Ectoderm is one of three germ layers--groups of cells that coalesce early during the embryonic life of all animals except maybe sponges, and from…
EmbryosEmbryologyGastrulationCellsTissues