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Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Died: June 19, 1844; Paris, France Fields of study: Anatomy, natural history A French anatomist, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was one of the leading comparative anatomists of the nineteenth century. He sought to reduce all animal forms to a single ideal plan. He brought considerable condemnation upon himself in 1830 by contending that cephalopod mollusks developed from the same basic pattern as vertebrates, a concept that was publicly deplored by Georges Cuvier, then the most celebrated figure in the field of comparative anatomy. Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire’s arguments are believed to have helped pave the way for acceptance of Charles Darwin’s theories. |
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