French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
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He proved extinction was real when most scientists thought vanished species were just hiding somewhere. By matching fossil bones to living animals, Cuvier built the framework for reading deep time—then spent the rest of his career insisting nothing had evolved, only died.
Georges Cuvier was born in 1769 and became the architect of vertebrate paleontology, grouping classes into phyla and weaving fossils into biological classification. His comparative anatomy work identified the mastodon from North American bones and named the Megatherium from a giant sloth skeleton in Argentina; he reconstructed Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium from fragments and described the Mosasaurus. In his 1813 Essay on the Theory of the Earth, he argued that catastrophic floods had wiped out ancient life in cycles—catastrophism, not gradual change. He famously debated Geoffroy Saint-Hilair…
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The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.
The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.
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