Zoology: Georges Cuvier

(Gale In Context: Science) Examines the impact of Cuvier on zoology, paleontology, and geology.

(CREDO Reference) Detailed biographical entry about “father of comparative anatomy,”

(EBSCOhost) Reconstructs and compares the three organizational levels in the writings of Bourguet, Bonnet and Cuvier, relates their models of organic unity to the principle of perfection, and contrasts these models with Georges Buffon's critique of system theories.

(EBSCOhost) Examines the discrepancy between theory and practice in the writings of zoologist Georges Cuvier. Role of anatomical rules in the research of Cuvier; Misconception on the objective of 'Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles'; Discussion on the study of Cuvier on fossil mosasaur.

(EBSCOhost) Georges Cuvier used the Sacred Ibis mummies brought by Napoleon's army to France in 1798 to challenge Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution. The “Sacred Ibis debate” predates the so-called “Great Debate” between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species five decades later.

(EBSCOhost) A biography of Georges Cuvier, a French zoologist who was instrumental in systematizing the classification of animals, is presented.