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    Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a...
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  • Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire may refer to: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), French...
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    term éthologie (ethology). He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics...
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  • Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1799–1853), French botanist and traveler Caroline St-Hilaire (born 1969), Canadian politician Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, (1772–1844)...
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    congenital disorder involving malformation of the limbs (dysmelia). Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire coined the term in 1836. The symptoms of phocomelia syndrome...
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    Mungos (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795. The genus contains the following species: Geoffroy, E. & Cuvier, F. (1795)...
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    Slow loris (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    bengalensis), named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1800. In 1812, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire named the genus Nycticebus, naming it for its nocturnal behavior...
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  • ornithologist Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)...
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    Egyptian fruit bat (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    was described as a new species in 1810 by French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, who gave it the name Pteropus egyptiacus. He later revised...
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    dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and...
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    zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) and grandson of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844). Saint-Hilaire was born in Paris...
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  • of pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas included Denis Diderot, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Grant, and Robert Chambers, the anonymous...
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    jumps, including immediate speciation. For example, in 1822 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire argued that species could be formed by sudden transformations...
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    as his initially positive views (influenced by the ideals of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire) gave way to a more pessimistic view. Knox also devoted the...
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  • "pattern of unification" in the organic world. It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and became a prominent part of his ideas. It suggested that...
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  • Inversion was first noted in 1822 by the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, when he dissected a crayfish (an arthropod) and compared it...
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    occurs within a short time. The disorder was first described by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1836. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἰνίον...
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    Strepsirrhini (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    rhinarium or wet nose. The name was first used by French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1812 as a subordinal rank comparable to Platyrrhini (New...
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  • The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. For around...
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    Georges Cuvier, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Richard Owen, Carl Gegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel. In 1830, Cuvier and E.G.Saint-Hilaire engaged in a famous...
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    Quoll (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    δασύουρος, dasýouros) means "hairy-tail", and was coined by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1796 (from δασύς : dasýs "hairy" and οὐρά : ourá "tail")...
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  • 1771 – Nicolas Chopin, French-Polish educator (d. 1844) 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844) 1793 – Friedrich Georg...
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    Catarrhini (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    University Press. pp. 111–184. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, M.É. (1812). "Tableau des Quadrumanes, ou des animaux composant...
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    such as the proboscidean and even-toed ungulates. In 1795, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) and Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) introduced the term...
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    Diplodus vulgaris (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    described in 1817 as Sparus vulgaris by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire with the type locality given as the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt...
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    materials were property of the British Crown, but French scholar Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire told Clarke and Hamilton that the French would rather burn all...
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  • and imagined, fascinated several of Sclater's contemporaries. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, also looking at the relationship between animals in India and...
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    over-wintered in Marseilles, where she was joined by the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire for the walk. He ordered a two-part yellow coat to keep her...
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    Slender loris (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    lemurs by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1796), based on a suggestion of a Lorican genus by Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1792). Saint-Hilaire's Loris at...
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    Common spotted cuscus (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire)
    Spilocuscus Species: S. maculatus Binomial name Spilocuscus maculatus (E. Geoffroy, 1803) Common spotted cuscus range (brown — native, red — introduced, dark...
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