The Animal Kingdom

Arranged in Conformity with its Organization

By:

Georges Cuvier

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology

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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 8 is the third of three books on birds.

Release date Australia

May 17th, 2012

Author

Georges Cuvier

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Edited and translated by Edward Griffith

Illustrations

68 Plates, black and white

Pages

798

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology

Dimensions

140x216x45

ISBN-13

9781108049610

Product ID

19821387

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