The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization Cuvier Volume 1
The Animal KingdomArranged in Conformity with its Organization\nAuthor(s): Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108049542, 978-1108049542\nSynopsis\nGeorges Cuvier [tel], made a peer of France in 1819 in recognition of his work, was perhaps the most important European scientist of his day. His most famous work, Le Rgne Animal, was published in French in 1817; Edward Griffith [tel], a solicitor and amateur naturalist, embarked on in 1824, with a team of colleagues, an English version which resulted in this illustrated sixteen-volume edition with additional material, published between 1827 and 1835. Cuvier was the first biologist to compare the anatomy of fossil animals with living species, and he named the now familiar 'mastodon' and 'megatherium'. However, his studies convinced him that the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and St Hilaire were wrong, and his influenc.
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