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The Animal Kingdom - Arranged in Conformity with its Organization (Paperback)
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The Animal Kingdom - Arranged in Conformity with its Organization (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology, Volume 10
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Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), made a peer of France in 1819 in
recognition of his work, was perhaps the most important European
scientist of his day. His most famous work, Le Regne Animal, was
published in French in 1817; Edward Griffith (1790-1858), a
solicitor and amateur naturalist, embarked on in 1824, with a team
of colleagues, an English version which resulted in this
illustrated sixteen-volume edition with additional material,
published between 1827 and 1835. Cuvier was the first biologist to
compare the anatomy of fossil animals with living species, and he
named the now familiar 'mastodon' and 'megatherium'. However, his
studies convinced him that the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and
St Hilaire were wrong, and his influence on the scientific world
was such that the possibility of evolution was widely discounted by
many scholars both before and after Darwin. Volume 10 covers the
class of fish.
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