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The Animal Kingdom
Georges Cuvier
其他書名
Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization
出版Cambridge University Press, 2012-05-17
主題Science / HistoryScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
ISBN11080495409781108049542
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uUd6cESVDlEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), 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 Règne Animal, was published in French in 1817; Edward Griffith (1790-1858), 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 influence on the scientific world was such that the possibility of evolution was widely discounted by many scholars both before and after Darwin. Volume 1 is the first of four books on mammals.