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    Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (French: [ʒɔʁʒ kyvje]), was a French naturalist and...
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  • Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier may also refer to: Cuvier Island, an island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand Cuvier...
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    change to the Biblical account of Noah's flood. The French scientist Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) popularised the concept of catastrophism in the early 19th...
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  • ) Harris 2001, p. 87 Georges Cuvier, Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1798) p. 71 Georges Cuvier, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged...
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  • antiquity, 2006, p. 105 Georges Cuvier, Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1798) p.71 Georges Cuvier (1834). The Animal Kingdom...
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    Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist...
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    frequently-spotted beaked whales when surfacing. Cuvier's beaked whale was named Ziphius cavirostris by Georges Cuvier based on a skull fragment which he believed...
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     'The Animal Kingdom') is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal...
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    French woman of letters and an artist. She assisted her step-father Georges Cuvier with his natural history researches and public talks. Sophie was the...
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    caiman by the pet trade community. Cuvier's dwarf caiman was first described by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1807 and is one of only two species...
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    'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier, and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it...
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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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    animals with radial symmetry, formed one of the four branches of Georges Cuvier's classification of the animal kingdom. Meanwhile, Bilateria is a taxonomic...
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    and cuttlefish. In his 1817 work, Le Règne Animal, French zoologist Georges Cuvier combined evidence from comparative anatomy and palaeontology to divide...
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    including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle...
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    Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777, Montbéliard, Doubs – 1 March 1855) was a French zoologist. He assisted Georges Cuvier in writing Leçons d'anatomie...
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    Tragopan (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    phasianids. The genus Tragopan was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1829 for the satyr tragopan. The name tragopan is a mythical horned...
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    animal are found in a quarry near Maastricht in the Netherlands. In 1808 Georges Cuvier identified it as an extinct marine reptile and in 1822 William Conybeare...
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    devised by Georges Cuvier, who first found one embedded in the mantle of a female argonaut. Supposing it to be a parasitic worm, in 1829 Cuvier gave it a...
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    and 18th centuries, and at the end of the 18th century, the work of Georges Cuvier had ended a long running debate about the reality of extinction, leading...
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    Sebastes (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    Sebastes was first described as a genus in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier, the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated Perca norvegica,...
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    Megatherium (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    following year wherein it caught the attention of the paleontologist Georges Cuvier, who was the first to determine, by means of comparative anatomy, that...
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  • India) was a French naturalist and explorer. He was the stepson of Georges Cuvier and travelled in India and Southeast Asia as a collector of specimens...
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    Black marlin (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    hours for the fishermen to row or sail back home. French naturalist Georges Cuvier described the black marlin in 1832 as Tetrapturus indicus. Compared...
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    red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives. Georges Cuvier first described Ailurus as belonging to the raccoon family in 1825;...
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    Greenfinch (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    Chloris which had originally been introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800 with the European greenfinch as the type species. The name is...
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    Anoplotherium (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    described by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. Discoveries of incomplete skeletons of A. commune in 1807 led Cuvier to thoroughly describe unusual features...
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    Yellow mongoose (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
    Cynictis. Herpestes penicillatus was the scientific name proposed by Georges Cuvier in 1829 for a mongoose specimen from the Cape. The generic name Cynictis...
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  • treatment of ichthyology published in 1828–1849 by the French savant Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and his student and successor Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865)...
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    is used mostly in a historical context. In the early 19th century, Georges Cuvier united Ctenophora and Cnidaria in the Radiata (Zoophytes). Thomas Cavalier-Smith...
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