Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken. He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and…
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science · French naturalist (1772–1844) · politician · zoologist · naturalist · ornithologist · botanical collector · anatomist · physician · also Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire
Born 15 April 1772 · Died 19 June 1844 · Q192428
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Albert von Kölliker revived Geoffroy's theory that evolution proceeds by large steps, under the name of heterogenesis
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1844· 1 entry
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Died 1844-06-19.
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And was succeeded by his son, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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1838· 1 entry
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Was named an Officer of the Légion d'honneur
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Geoffroy coined the term phocomelia
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1833· 1 entry
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1833–1833).
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Speculated that birds could have arisen from reptiles by an epigenetic saltation
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1830· 1 entry
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Geoffroy proceeded to apply to the invertebrata his views as to the unity of animal composition, he found a vigorous opponent in Cuvier, his former friend
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1826· 1 entry
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And 1827 by Grant's student Charles Darwin) when Grant successfully identified the pancreas in molluscs
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Published the first part of his celebrated Philosophie anatomique, the second volume of which, published in 1822, and subsequent memoirs account for the formation of monstrosities on the principle of arrest of develop
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1815· 1 entry
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Career landmark: député de Seine-et-Oise (1815–1815).
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The year after his return to France, Geoffroy became professor of zoology at the faculty of sciences at Paris, and from that period he devoted himself more exclusively than before to anatomical study
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1772· 1 entry
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Born 1772-04-15.
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