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	Georges Cuvier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cuvier was born at Montbéliard (then Mömpelgard in the duchy of Württemberg) under the name of Johann Leopold Nicolaus Friedrich Kuefer, 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.
		Cuvier's papers on the Mollusca began appearing as early as 1792, but most of his memoirs on this branch were published in the Annales du museum between 1802 and 1815; they were subsequently collected as Mémoires pour servir de l'histoire et a l'anatomie des mollusques, published in one volume at Paris in 1817.
		Cuvier's researches on fishes, 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges_Cuvier (1368 words)

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		Baron Georges Leopold Chretien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23 1769 — May 13, 1832), French naturalist, was born at Montbéliard, 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.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/georges_cuvier.html (991 words)

	The Academy of Natural Sciences - Museum - Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), born and raised among French-speaking Protestants in the Duchy of Württemberg, entered the scientific world in Paris as an outsider.
		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 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)

	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)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Georges Cuvier
		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 1798 was published his first separate work, the Tableau élémentaire de l'Histoire naturelle des animaux, which was an abridgment of his course of lectures at the École du Pantheon, and may be regarded as the foundation and first and general statement of his natural classification of the animal kingdom.
		In 1821, Cuvier made what has been called his "Rash Dictum": He remarked that it was unlikely for any large, unknown animal to be discovered.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Georges_Cuvier (1015 words)

	Georges Cuvier
		Baron Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) was a French vertebrate zoologist who revolutionized biology by developing a natural system of classifying animals based on comparative anatomy.
		Cuvier was born August 23, 1769, at Montbéliard, a French-speaking community in the Jura Mountains in western Germany.
		Cuvier was also ahead of his time in that he was one of the first paleontologists to use the muscle scars on fossilized bones to reconstruct the musculature of the animal.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4003/69528 (391 words)

	Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
		George Cuvier was one of the most influential figures in science during the early nineteenth century.
		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 was a strong opponent of his colleague Lamarck's theory of evolution.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/cuvier.html (692 words)

	BookRags: Georges Cuvier Biography
		Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron Cuvier was a French naturalist who is known as the founder of modern comparative anatomy and as the founder of the field of paleontology.
		Cuvier was an academically inclined young man, and, because his family lived in near-poverty, he accepted the offer to study for free at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart, Germany.
		Cuvier's views of classification and evolution were vigorously opposed by several of his prominent contemporaries, who found his systematic philosophy, particularly his adamant insistence of four ground-plans, dogmatic.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/georges-cuvier-wob (1220 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Cuvier Monkey Prints
		Cuvier began his career in Normandy, and came to Paris in 1795 at the invitation of Geoffroy St. Hilaire, where he became a professor of animal anatomy and superintendent of the zoo at the Museum of Natural History.
		Cuvier was a “functionalist,” stating that the organ systems of vertebrates were only related by their functions.
		Cuvier, by contrast, held a “functionalist” view of organisms which led him to reject the idea of common ancestry of vertebrates — he felt that any similarities between organs of different animals were solely the result of their having similar functions.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/nathist/monkeys/cuviermonkeys1.html (697 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)

	SEMP -What Is Cuvier Catastrophism?
		Cuvier discovered the first proofs of earth upheavals in the mountains where ancient strata are tilted up in oblique layers and overlain with more recent horizontal layers of sand loaded with sea shells, the remains of marine animals.
		Cuvier was surprised to find that the sea shells in the mountains were unlike any common shells that he had dug up in the Paris basin once submerged by saltwater.
		Cuvier concludes: “Everything therefore leads to the belief that, in the same time period as the upheavals which buried the fossil bones, the human species did not exist at all in the countries where the bones are discovered.
	www.semp.us /biots/biot_169.html (1659 words)

	Factsheets - Cuvier's Beaked Whale
		It was described from a skull by Georges Cuvier in 1823, who mistakenly identified it as an extinct fossil species, because the skull looked 'petrified'.
		Cuvier's Beaked Whales were taken opportunistically along the Japanese coast as part of the hunt for the larger Baird's Beaked Whale.
		Cuvier's Beaked Whales can be readily identified by their sloping foreheads, short stubby beak, pale head, and the exposed teeth of males.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/cuviers_beaked.htm (870 words)

	Development of Evolutionary Thought
		Georges Cuvier (1769 - 1832) was interested in biology from childhood, an interest that he developed further while living in the French countryside during the Revolution.
		Cuvier also classified animals according to their body plan (as vertebrates, molluscs, those with jointed exoskeletons and those with radial symmetry), a major advance in thinking about relationships.
		Cuvier's adherence to the concept that species were "fixed" and unchanging meant that he rejected the model of evolution developed by his fellow Frenchman, Lamarck.
	sci.waikato.ac.nz /evolution/DevelopmentEvolThought.shtml (3562 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)

	Georges Cuvier
		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 1828-31.
		Apart from his own original investigations in zoology and palaeontology Cuvier carried out a vast amount of work as perpetual secretary of the National Institute, and as an official connected with public education generally; and much of this work appeared ultimately in a published form.
		In the beginning of 1832 he was nominated to the ministry of the interior, but on the 13th of May he died in Paris after a brief illness.
	www.nndb.com /people/745/000091472 (917 words)

	Cuvier's elegy of Lamarck
		Georges Cuvier, 'Elegy of Lamarck', Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal Vol.
		This elegy was read to the French Academy of Science in Paris by the Baron Silvestre (Cuvier had recently died) on 26 November 1832.
		Cuvier often wrote such elegies to praise or condemn his contemporary men of science.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/science_texts/cuvier/cuvier_on_lamarck.htm (4979 words)

	Cuvier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cuvier, a commune of the Jura département in France
		Cuvier Island, a lighthouse island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuvier (89 words)

	BookRags: Georges Léopold Cuvier, Baron Biography
		The French zoologist and biologist Baron Georges Léopold Cuvier (1769-1832) made significant contributions in the fields of paleontology, comparative anatomy, and taxonomy and was one of the chief spokesmen for science in postrevolutionary France.
		Georges Léopold Cuvier was born on Aug. 23, 1769, in Montbéliard, a small, French-speaking town in the duchy of Württemberg, where his father was commandant of the local artillery.
		Cuvier was christened Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, but after the death of his elder brother, Georges, in 1769, he was known as Georges.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/georges-leopold-cuvier-baron (203 words)

	cuvier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		aron Georges Cuvier was a pioneer in the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
		He studied the regularity of natural forms and processes, and he produced a theory of the "correlation of parts" to explain the functional basis of living structures and processes.
		Cuvier helped to put forth a version of catastrophism, that is, the belief that separately created animals had been subject to floods and other natural disasters that wiped out whole types of creatures.
	www.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/cuvier.htm (250 words)

	History of Biology: Buffon and Lamarck
		1744 George Berkeley (Dysert Castle 1685 - Oxford 1753) in his Philosophical Reflections concerning Tar-Water, presents tar-water, made by stirring together tar and cold water, and drawing off the impregnated water after the solid residues have settled as a universal remedy.
		1749-1777 Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (Montbard 1707 - Paris 1788), author of a major "Histoire Naturelle", regards spermatozoa as "molecules organiques vivantes" which multiply in the semen.
		1796 Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (Montbéliard 1769 - Paris 1832), is invited in 1795 by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Etampes 1772 - Paris 1844) to come to Paris; he is appointed an assistant, and shortly thereafter a professor of animal anatomy, at the newly reformed Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle.
	www.pasteur.fr /recherche/unites/REG/causeries/dates_1700.html (6235 words)

	Georges Cuvier - Wikimedia Commons
		English: Baron Georges Leopold Chretien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832) was a French naturalist.
		Norsk (bokmål): Baron Georges Leopold Chretien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (født 1769, død 1832) var en fransk naturalist.
		Portrait of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) by Mathieu-Ignace van Brée (1773-1839)
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Georges_Cuvier (126 words)

	Georges Cuvier Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Georges Cuvier Encyclopedia Article @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)
		Crater Cuvier was named after the creator of the comparative anatomy, Georges Cuvier, a 19th century French naturalist (1769 - 1832).
		Cuvier's researches on fishes, 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.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Georges_Cuvier (1165 words)

	Biology 111G - Exam 4 Name Spring 1999
		A. Georges Cuvier was an evolutionist and a staunch proponent of uniformitarianism
		B. Georges Cuvier is known as the founder of vertebrate paleontology
		D. Georges Cuvier believed that fossils were the remains of organisms that became extinct
	alamo.nmsu.edu /~vlombran/111Exam4.htm (732 words)

	Georges Cuvier Gravesite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mike's Notes: Georges Cuvier was the founder of Paleontology as a scientific discipline.
		I am not 100% certain if the picture in the photo is that of Cuvier's grave or not.
		It may be his son, but I am not certain if the famous father is there at the same site or not.
	www.thecemeteryproject.com /Graves/cuvier-georges.htm (71 words)

	Amazon.com: Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes: New Translations and Interpretations of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		by Martin J. Rudwick "Georges Cuvier was born in 1769 in the town of Montbeliard, which was at that time the center of a small French-speaking Protestant territory belonging..." (more)
		French zoologist and geologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) is remembered largely for opposing pre-Darwinian theories of evolution and instead advancing his theory of catastrophism.
		Georges Cuvier was born in 1769 in the town of Montbeliard, which was at that time the center of a small French-speaking Protestant territory belonging to the duchy of Wurttemberg.
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