[Georges Cuvier: natural history in pre-Darwinian times].
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Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Georges Cuvier [4], baptized Georges Jean-Léopold Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scholars recognize Cuvier as a founder of modern comparative anatomy, and as an important contributor to vertebrate paleontology and geology. Cuvier studied the form and funct...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos
دوره 17 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010