Cuvier

[ kyoo-vee-ey, koov-yey; French ky-vyey ]

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Georges Lé·o·pold Chré·tien Fré·dé·ric Da·go·bert [zhaw, r, zh ley-aw-, pawld, k, r, ey-, tyan, f, r, ey-dey-, reek, d, a, -gaw-, ber], Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.

Cuvier

/ kyvje; ˈkjuːvɪeɪ /

CuvierGeorges (Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric), Baron17691832MFrenchSCIENCE: zoologistPOLITICS: statesman Georges ( Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric ) (ʒɔrʒ), Baron. 1769–1832, French zoologist and statesman; founder of the sciences of comparative anatomy and palaeontology

Cuvier

/ kyo̅o̅′vē-ā′ /

French anatomist who is considered the founder of comparative anatomy. He originated a system of zoological classification that grouped animals according to the structures of their skeletons and organs. Cuvier extended his system to fossils; his reconstructions of the way extinct animals looked, based on their skeletal remains, greatly advanced the science of paleontology.

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Aristotle.

Aristotle did make progress beyond earlier philosophers, just as Darwin advanced beyond Linnaeus and Cuvier.

There is a wretched figure of this insect given in the fourth volume of Cuvier's Regne Animal.

Were some of his biographers right in asserting that he had adopted Cuvier's system?

The skin being covered with thick hair, induces M. Cuvier to consider that it was the inhabitant of a cold region.

The name Testacella, or little shell, was given by Cuvier in 1800, because this slug has a small shell at the end of the tail.

It is an excellent illustration of Cuvier's sagacity, and he evidently takes some pride in telling his story about it.

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