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  1. BornJean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier · 23 August 1769 · Montbéliard, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire
    Died13 May 1832 (aged 62) · Paris, Kingdom of France
    Known forLe Règne Animal; establishing the fields of stratigraphy and comparative anatomy, and the principle of faunal succession in the fossil record; making extinction an accepted scientific phenomenon; opposing theories of evolution; popularizing catastrophism
    Biography

    Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, where his Protestant ancestors had lived since the time of the Reformation. His mother was Anne Clémence Chatel; his father, Jean-Georges Cuvier, wa… See more

    Scientific ideas and their impact

    Cuvier was critical of theories of evolution, in particular those proposed by his contemporaries Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, which involved the gradual transmutation of one form into another. He repeatedly … See more

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