Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [etjɛn ʒɔfʁwa sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the...
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Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire may refer to: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), French...
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term éthologie (ethology). He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics...
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Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1799–1853), French botanist and traveler Caroline St-Hilaire (born 1969), Canadian politician Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, (1772–1844)...
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congenital disorder involving malformation of the limbs (dysmelia). Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire coined the term in 1836. The symptoms of phocomelia syndrome...
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The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. For around...
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Slow loris (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
bengalensis), named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1800. In 1812, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire named the genus Nycticebus, naming it for its nocturnal behavior...
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dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and...
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Mungos (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795. The genus contains the following species: Geoffroy, E. & Cuvier, F. (1795)...
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zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) and grandson of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844). Saint-Hilaire was born in Paris...
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of pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas included Denis Diderot, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Grant, and Robert Chambers, the anonymous...
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Mutationism (section Geoffroy's monstrosities, 1822)
jumps, including immediate speciation. For example, in 1822 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire argued that species could be formed by sudden transformations...
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"pattern of unification" in the organic world. It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and became a prominent part of his ideas. It suggested that...
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as his initially positive views (influenced by the ideals of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire) gave way to a more pessimistic view. Knox also devoted the...
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Strepsirrhini (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
rhinarium or wet nose. The name was first used by French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1812 as a subordinal rank comparable to Platyrrhini (New...
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Quoll (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
δασύουρος, dasýouros) means "hairy-tail", and was coined by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1796 (from δασύς : dasýs "hairy" and οὐρά : ourá "tail")...
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Georges Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Richard Owen, Carl Gegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel. In 1830, Cuvier and Saint-Hilaire engaged in a famous...
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Egyptian fruit bat (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
was described as a new species in 1810 by French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, who gave it the name Pteropus egyptiacus. He later revised...
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ornithologist Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)...
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occurs within a short time. The disorder was first described by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1836. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἰνίον...
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Inversion was first noted in 1822 by the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, when he dissected a crayfish (an arthropod) and compared it...
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Catarrhini (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
University Press. pp. 111–184. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, M.É. (1812). "Tableau des Quadrumanes, ou des animaux composant...
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Tasmanian short-beaked echidna (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
short-beaked echidna endemic to Tasmania. It was first described by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1803 as Echidna setosa, from two specimens, one of which...
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Diplodus vulgaris (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
described in 1817 as Sparus vulgaris by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire with the type locality given as the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt...
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materials were property of the British Crown, but French scholar Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire told Clarke and Hamilton that the French would rather burn all...
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eastern Madagascar. It is a solitary and nocturnal creature. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire described this species in 1836 when he described the genus Microcebus...
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Mouse lemur (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
Strepsirrhini Family: Cheirogaleidae Genus: Microcebus É. Geoffroy, 1834 Type species Lemur pusillus É. Geoffroy, 1795 Diversity About 25 species Combined distribution...
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aggressive Nile crocodile (C. niloticus). The species was named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1807, who discovered differences between the skulls of a...
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Vombatus (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Diprotodontia Family: Vombatidae Genus: Vombatus É. Geoffroy, 1803 Type species Vombatus ursinus Shaw, 1800...
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10621754O. doi:10.1073/pnas.0903672106. PMC 2799835. PMID 20007379. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; Georges Cuvier (1795). "Memoire sur une nouvelle division of...
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