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Research Paper On George Cuvier

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George Cuvier was a French naturalist, zoologist and most of all, he was an anatomist who did not believe in evolution and believed that consecutive changes in a species was caused by a major catastrophe and this thinking stradey was called Catastrophism . Cuvier was born on August 23, 1769 in Montbeliard, France and was given the name, Jean-Leopold-Nicholas-Frederic Cuvier at birth. Cuvier went to Carolina Academy of Stuttgart from 1784 to 1788, to where he studied anatomy. After he graduated, Cuvier became a tutor for a noble family in Normandy from 1788 to 1795 and while working as a tutor, he made notes on marine invertebrates. Cuvier's notes were then sent to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a professor zoology at the Museum of Natural History

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