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Vor 5 Tagen · Georges Cuvier (born August 23, 1769, Montbéliard [now in France]—died May 13, 1832, Paris, France) was a French zoologist and statesman, who established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
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Daubenton was studying medicine when, in 1742, the renowned...
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Vor 4 Tagen · Current rendering of the Megalosaurus skeleton, and the jaw now on display at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Wikimedia “Crucial to dispensing with the idea that it was a fossil of a giant human were the letters between Mary Morland, a professional paleo-illustrator and Buckland’s wife, and Frenchman Georges Cuvier, who was the great anatomist of that period,” Castaño ...
Vor einem Tag · Georges Cuvier verstarb am 13. Mai 1832 mit 62 Jahren. Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, so sein richtiger Name, war ein bedeutender französischer Naturforscher, Begründer der wissenschaftlichen Paläontologie und der vergleichenden Anatomie. Er wurde Ende der 1760er-Jahre am 23. August 1769 in Mömpelgard in Frankreich geboren und ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Cuvier argued against transformation of species drawing on evidence from ancient mummified animals from Egyptian tombs, which were not significantly different from modern forms. Cuvier was thus promoting a theory of stability of forms over time and, for him, the Megatherium was merely an anatomically similar predecessor of extant sloths, not an ancestor ( Cuvier 1805 ).
Vor 4 Tagen · El Megalosaurus Bucklandii fue el primer dinosaurio descrito por la ciencia, en 1824. Hace más de 160 millones de años era un carnívoro bípedo que pesaba una tonelada y medía entre 6 y 9 metros de...
Vor einem Tag · El trabajo de Georges Cuvier sobre la organización animal ofrece poderosas analogías que atraviesan el trabajo teórico de Viollet-le-Duc. Detrás del concepto de “condiciones de existencia”, Cuvier defiende la tesis según la cual el entorno determina completamente la morfología animal. Los animales de todas las especies, en su ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae. It is a large macropredator, with females capable of attaining a length of over 5 m (16 ft 5 in).
