Georges Cuvier, Zoologist
Author: William Coleman
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780674283695
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Animals, Animality, and Literature
Author: Bruce Boehrer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-20
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 1108581161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands.
The Philosophy of Zoology Before Darwin
Author: Alex McBirney
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-08-21
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9048130093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Octave Edmond Perrier was a French zoologist who lived through the tumult of British Darwinism and Lyellism, and reminds us in this revealing account that French scientists had much to contribute to such perennial topics as evolution, catastrophism and creationism. While very much a product of the Third Republic, Perrier’s account also aimed to outline timeless issues and permanent advances in taxonomic and developmental biology since classical Greece and Rome. In this aim he succeeds with surprisingly modern perspectives for a book first published in 1884. Perrier was born May 9, 1844 at Tulle, the son of the principal of a school which now bears his name, Lycée Edmond Perrier. In 1864 he was accepted to the École Normale Supérieure, where he was strongly influenced by Louis Pasteur and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers. After working for three years at a high school in Agen, he obtained a post of naturalist-aid at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1868), advancing in that institution to Chair of Natural History of Molluscs, Worms and Corals (1876–1903) and then Director of the museum (1900–1919) and Chair of Comparative Anatomy (1903–1921). Previous directors of the museum included many of the scientists he discusses in this book: George Cuvier (1822–1823, 1826–1827, 1830–1831), Isidore Geoffrey St Hilaire (1860– 1861), and Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1891–1900). Perrier’s own research on echinoderms and earthworms took him on several expeditions in 1880-1885, mostly to Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, but also to the Caribbean.
Cuvier and Zoology
Author: Georges Léopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Baron Cuvier
Publisher:
Published: 1844
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0226731081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writings on fossils and catastrophes and links these translated texts together with his own insightful narrative and interpretive commentary. "Martin Rudwick has done English-speaking science a considerable service by translating and commenting on Cuvier's work. . . . He guides us through Cuvier's most important writings, especially those which demonstrate his new technique of comparative anatomy."—Douglas Palmer, New Scientist
The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
Author: Toby A. Appel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0195041380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the historical and scientific issues that made comparative anatomy central to 19th-century biology and fostered the development of Darwin's theory of evolution.
A Nimal Kingdom
Author: Cuvier Baron
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780530935096
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Elements of Zoology: for Schools and Science Classes
Author: M. Harbison
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-06-17
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 3368827685
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Not by Design
Author: John Reiss
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-08-10
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0520944402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe necessitated a designer. Today, some 150 years since Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published, the argument of design is seeing a revival. This provocative work tells how Darwin left the door open for this revival--and at the same time argues for a new conceptual framework that avoids the problematic teleology inherent in Darwin's formulation of natural selection. In a wide-ranging discussion of the historical and philosophical dimensions of evolutionary theory from the ancient Greeks to today, John Reiss argues that we should look to the principle of the conditions for existence, first formulated before On the Origin of Species by the French paleontologist Georges Cuvier, to clarify the relation of adaptation to evolution. Reiss suggests that Cuvier's principle can help resolve persistent issues in evolutionary biology, including the proper definition of natural selection, the distinction between natural selection and genetic drift, and the meaning of genetic load. Moreover, he shows how this principle can help unite diverse areas of biology, ranging from quantitative genetics and the theory of the levels of selection to evo-devo, ecology, physiology, and conservation biology.
Discourse on the Revolutions
Author: Baron George Cuvier
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781978392069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He established animal extinctions as a fact, and was the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. His most famous work is the Le Règne Animal (1817; English: The Animal Kingdom). In 1819, he was created a peer for the life in honor of his scientific contributions. Thereafter he was known as Baron Cuvier.
