Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
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1. The Debate: Conceptual Themes 2. Function vs. Form: Rational Principles, Taxonomy, & Comparative Anatomy 3. Functional Anatomy vs. Philosophical Anatomy: Scientific Explanation in Comparative Anatomy 4. Observation vs. Hypothesis: The Role of Induction in 19th Century Science 5. Limited Variation (within embranchements [3]) vs. Teratological Evolution 6. After the Debate: Reinterpretations in the 20th and 21st Centuries Sources
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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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