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	Georges Leopold Cuvier - LoveToKnow 1911
		GEORGES LEOPOLD [[Chretien Frederic Dagobert CUVIER, Baron]] (1769-1832), French naturalist, was born on the 23rd of August 1769 at Montbeliard, and was the son of a retired officer on half-pay belonging to a Protestant family which had emigrated from the Jura in consequence of religious persecution.
		In 1802 Cuvier became titular professor at the Jardin des Plantes; and in the same year he was appointed commissary of the Institute to accompany the inspectorsgeneral of public instruction.
		In the department of fishes, Cuvier's researches, begun in 1801, finally culminated in the publication of the Histoire naturelle des poissons, which contained descriptions of 5000 species of fishes, and was the joint production of Cuvier and A. Valenciennes, its publication (so far as the former was concerned) extending over the years 1828-1831.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Georges_Leopold_Cuvier (959 words)

	Rocky Road: Georges Cuvier
		Cuvier was born in the French-German duchy of Württemberg.
		Cuvier's life and work preceded what were arguably the most popular (the naming of dinosaurs by Sir Richard Owen) and important (the theory of natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin) events in paleontology.
		Cuvier's agreement was often all that was needed for a scientist to make a bold claim — a claim that usually proved correct.
	www.strangescience.net /cuvier.htm (954 words)

	Cuvier's Beaked Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This marine mammal was first described by Georges Cuvier in 1823 from part of a skull found in France in 1804.
		Cuvier's Beaked Whale has a short beak in comparison with other species in the family, making for a slightly bulbous-shaped melon.
		The Cuvier's Beaked Whale is difficult to distinguish from many of the mesoplodont whales at sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuvier's_Beaked_Whale (428 words)

	Georges Cuvier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born at Montbéliard (then Mömpelgard in Württemberg) under the name of Johann Leopold Nicolaus Friedrich Kuefer, and was the son of a retired officer on half-pay belonging to a Protestant family which had emigrated from the Jura mountains on the French-Swiss border as a consequence of religious persecution.
		In 1802 Cuvier became titular professor at the Jardin des Plantes; and in the same year he was appointed commissary of the Institute to accompany the inspectors general of public instruction.
		In the department of fishes, Cuvier's researches, begun in 1801, finally culminated in the publication of the Histoire naturelle des poissons, which contained descriptions of 5000 species of fishes, and was the joint production of Cuvier and A Valenciennes, its publication (so far as the former was concerned) extending over the years 1828 - 1831.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuvier (1102 words)

	The Academy of Natural Sciences - Museum - Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cuvier wasn't the first to contemplate the existence of a pre-human past, nor was he the first to accept extinction, but he was spectacularly capable of marshalling the facts and making the case for former worlds and lost species.
		Cuvier took the recent discoveries of frozen carcasses of a woolly mammoth and rhinoceros as evidence that this revolution was very sudden.
		Cuvier was harshly critical of the numerous "Theories of the Earth" written by geologists, naturalists and natural theologians during the 18th and early 19th century.
	www.acnatsci.org /museum/jefferson/otherPages/cuvier_revolutions.html (3604 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cuvier
		Cuvier was immediately appointed professor of zoology and assistant professor of animal anatomy.
		With his colleagues, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Cuvier believed that all life could be organized into a continuous series beginning with the simplest organism and ending with humans.
		In contrast to the evolutionary ideas of Lamarck and Saint-Hilaire, Cuvier argued that species are immutable, stating that the efficient design of each animal is evidence that it could not have changed since its creation.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555717/Cuvier.html (463 words)

	Georges Cuvier
		Cuvier was born on August 23, 1769, at Montbéliard, a French-speaking community in the Jura Mountains that was not under French jurisdiction at the time; it was ruled by the Duke of Württemberg.
		Cuvier's ideas led him to oppose the theories of his contemporaries, such as Buffon, Lamarck, and Geoffroy St. Hilaire, who suggested that animal morphology might be much more changeable and be affected by environmental conditions.
		Cuvier went on to publish detailed studies of elephant anatomy that showed not only that the African and Indian elephants were distinct species, but that the fossil mammoths of Europe and Siberia were different from either living elephant species.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/cuvier.html (1428 words)

	Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
		Cuvier was born on 23 August 1769, at Montbéliard, a French-speaking community in the Jura Mountains then rule by the Duke of Württemberg.
		Cuvier strongly opposed Geoffroy's theory that all organisms were based on a basic plan or archetype and that they blended gradually one into another.
		Cuvier was a strong opponent of his colleague Lamarck's theory of evolution.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/cuvier.html (692 words)

	Cuvier's Beaked Whale \| Cetacean Fact Sheet \| American Cetacean Society
		Cuvier's beaked whale, also known as the goosebeak whale, is one of twenty named species of beaked whales.
		Dorsal fins of Cuvier's beaked whales may vary in shape; they may be as high as 15 inches (38 cm) and falcate (curved) or less than 10 inches (25 cm) and triangular.
		Cuvier's beaked whales are found in all the oceans of the world except the polar regions of both hemispheres.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/CuviersWhale.htm (766 words)

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		Cuvier was born on August 23, 1769, at Montbéliard, a French-speaking community in the Jura Mountains that was not under French jurisdiction at the time; it was ruled by the Duke of Württemberg.
		Cuvier went on to publish detailed studies of elephant anatomy that showed not only that the African and Indian elephants were distinct species, but that the fossil mammoths of Europe and Siberia were different from either living elephant species.
		Cuvier regarded these "revolutions" as events with natural causes, and considered their causes and natures to be an important geological problem.
	www.kie.berkeley.edu /ned/data/E01-980502-002/E01-980502-002.txt (1030 words)

	Georges Cuvier
		Cuvier’s command of comparative anatomy allowed him to move away from the traditional view that the great variety of life forms (living and fossil) were the product of environmental influences.
		Cuvier argued that biological function within organisms dictated the morphology of organisms, and thus morphological similarities did not necessarily indicate common ancestry.
		Cuvier distinguished between the African and Indian living elephants of course, but he showed further that the fossil mammoths in turn differed from the elephants.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2750 (499 words)

	Factsheets - Cuvier's Beaked Whale
		Cuvier's Beaked Whales were taken opportunistically along the Japanese coast as part of the hunt for the larger Baird's Beaked Whale.
		The head of Cuvier's Beaked Whale is short and blunt, with a gently sloping forehead, a small, poorly defined beak, and an indistinct melon.
		Cuvier's Beaked Whales can be readily identified by their sloping foreheads, short stubby beak, pale head, and the exposed teeth of males.
	www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/cuviers_beaked.htm (870 words)

	Chapter 3. The Age of Scientists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cuvier did not venture to say the exact cause, stating only that their burial had resulted from a "general inundation" and letting the matter rest there.
		Cuvier's work from this period, and much of what was to follow, was collected and published in 1812 as Recherches sur les Ossements Fossiles des Quadrupedes (Researches on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds), which he revised and expanded as time went on.
		Cuvier's laws of comparative anatomy gained widespread acceptance among scientists, even those who were sharply divided over his views on the history of the earth.
	oscar.ctc.edu /access/geology100/Fossil3.html (2575 words)

	ESA Portal - Life in Space - Close-up on Cuvier crater ridge
		AMIE obtained this sequence on 18 March 2006 from a distance of 591 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 53 metres per pixel.
		Cuvier C, a crater about 10 kilometres across, is visible in the lower right part of the image.
		Cuvier C is located at the edge of the larger old crater Cuvier, a crater 77 kilometres in diameter.
	www.esa.int /esaCP/SEMOB7BUQPE_Life_0.html (327 words)

	Animal Info - Cuvier's Gazelle
		Earlier this century, Cuvier's gazelle was still quite widespread in the higher elevations of the mountainous regions of Morocco, including the Middle and High Atlas, extending beyond the latter almost to the Atlantic coast.
		Cuvier's gazelle declined due to hunting for skins, meat and as a trophy, especially after motorized hunting with modern firearms became feasible.
		Cuvier's gazelle is endemic to the hills and plateaus of the Atlas Mountains.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/artiperi/gazecuvi.htm (922 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003064888
		Cuvier concentrated his scientific research on the burgeoning field of comparative anatomy; he was convinced that the internal structure of an animal revealed its function and therefore its true nature.
		Cuvier was the first naturalist to have at his disposal a suitably complete collection of the world's mammals-past and present-to make definitive distinctions among them.
		According to one observer, Cuvier's head "gave to his entire person an undeniable cachet of majesty and to his face an expression of profound meditation."6 Here was the lion of nineteenth-century French science and founder of modern comparative anatomy and paleontology.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random051/2003064888.html (2543 words)

	The Living Desert - Cuvier's Gazelle
		Cuvier's gazelles inhabit the semi-desert steppes of Northern Africa, primarily Morocco, Northern Algeria and Tunia.
		Cuvier's gazelles' main defenses are a nervous alertness and great speed.
		Like most gazelles in the wild, Cuvier's gazelles are always on the move eating leaves, grass and other succulent vegetation.
	www.livingdesert.org /animals/cuviers_gazelle.asp (385 words)

	Evolution: Library: Georges Cuvier
		He was an essentialist, convinced that plants and animals of all types were created for their particular roles and places in the world's environment, and that they were unchanging throughout their existence.
		He could see no evidence for a steady increase in complexity or perfection as claimed by those who believed in a "great chain of being." But in the course of history, he said, catastrophic events had killed off all members of some species, and their fossils would no longer be seen in the rocks.
		Cuvier could be called the founder of comparative anatomy, and it was his knowledge in this field that accounted for his well-known and almost uncanny ability to reconstruct animals from only fragments of fossil remains.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/library/02/1/l_021_01.html (464 words)

	Extinctions: Georges Cuvier
		Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) joined the fledgling National Museum in Paris in 1795, and quickly became the world's leading expert on the anatomy of animals.
		Cuvier scoffed at the idea that living members of these fossil species were lurking somewhere on Earth, unrecognized—they were simply too big.
		Cuvier established extinctions as a fact that any future scientific theory of life had to explain.
	evolution.berkeley.edu /evolibrary/article/0_0_0/history_08 (721 words)

	Cuvier's Beaked Whale, Ziphius cavirostris @ MarineBio.org
		The Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris is one of the most common whales in its family, and is found in all temperate and tropical seas, commonly in deep water of the coasts of Japan, Hawaii, and New Zealand.
		The greatest threat to the Cuvier's beaked whale is though to be acoustic trauma resulting in strandings related to human activated sonar in the Caribbean, Azores Islands, and in the Gulf of California.
		Cuvier's Beaked Whale - Ziphius cavirostris - MarineBio.org.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=322 (998 words)

	CMS: Ziphius cavirostris, Cuvier´s beaked whale
		Cuvier's beaked whales may have the most extensive range and may be one of the most abundant of any beaked whale species.
		Cuvier's beaked whales, like all beaked whales, appear to prefer deep water; they feed mostly on deep sea squid, but also take fish and some crustaceans (Jefferson et al.
		Whale mortality during tests could therefore be due to resonance phenomena in the whales cranial airspaces that are tearing apart delicate tissues around the brains and ears.
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/Z_cavirostris/z_cavirostris.htm (1887 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Ridge of Crater Cuvier
		The imaged area is centred at a longitude of 11.2° East and a latitude of 50.1° South, with a field of view of 27 km.
		The image shows the north-eastern part of crater Cuvier, an old circular crater on the lunar near side, 77 kilometres in diameter.
		Situated on the rim of crater Cuvier at the top right in this view is the smaller satellite crater, Cuvier C, with a diameter of 9 km.
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39875 (198 words)

	Reading notes on Cuvier's early work
		Cuvier (1769-1832) was one of the leading scientists of his day and held an influential position at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris).
		These were largely discredited by the turn of the century despite the brilliance of some of the theorists.
		Cuvier has two advantages over his predessors: better collections and his knowledge of comparative anatomy (his approach is very well explained - bottom p.
	www.uwm.edu /People/mtharris/Lyell03/RN1.htm (686 words)

	Notes on Cuvier (1812)
		Cuvier called for the integration of the study of minerals/strata with fossils.
		First of all, Cuvier explains that human bones have not been found as fossils, in the traditional sense of fossils.
		Cuvier says that at the point of this revolution, the countries we now know were destroyed, and when the water receded and land was "newly laid dry," the few people spared from the catastophe populated the earth that we now know today.
	www.uwm.edu /People/mtharris/Lyell/ClNt6.html (644 words)

	Cuvier, Georges -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		During the troubled days of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, Georges Cuvier was laying the foundations of the science of comparative anatomy.
		During this period of confrontation between the proponents of Neptunism and uniformitarianism, there emerged evidence resulting from a lengthy and detailed study of the fossiliferous strata of the Paris Basin that rock successions were not necessarily complete records of past geologic events.
		Georges Cuvier, a French scientist, believed that the fossil sequence resulted from a series of recurring catastrophes, followed by creation of new plants and animals.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273885?tocId=9273885 (664 words)

	Le Cuvier
		She soon became entrapped by the glamour and deeply refined complexity of the Le Cuvier operation, and shortly thereafter joined with Munch as an equal partner in the winery.
		Use of commercial strains of yeast is eschewed because, according to the winemaker, this would be tantamount to use of slave labor, and of consequence represents a despicable practice.
		Conversely, the peculiar winemaking process at Le Cuvier is stated to be a voluntary collaboration between the winemaker (or “wine herd” as he terms himself) and a wiling and excited spiritual community of indigenous yeast.
	www.lcwine.com /history.html (837 words)

	DinoData Paleontologists Cuvier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cuvier was born on August 23, 1769, at Montbéliard in the Jura Mountains established the fact of the extinction of past lifeforms.
		Cuvier did not believe in organic evolution instead he thought that lifeforms did not evolve over time.
		When Napoleon's army in 1795 sacked the town of Maastricht in the Netherlands he took the remains of a giant reptile that was found their in 1780 to France where Cuvier described it in 1808 correct as a giant extinct marine lizard.
	www.dinodata.net /Dd/Namelist/PAL/Cuvier.htm (366 words)

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