When1: 1817
When2: 1825
Who: Georges Cuvier [Cuvier, Georges]
What: biologist
Where: Paris, France
works\ Animal Kingdom [1817]; Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth [1825]
Detail: He lived 1769 to 1832 and studied fossils, differentiated animals by body structures and nervous systems, and noted adaptations to environment.
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