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... 19 KB (2,095 words) - 10:47, 11 January 2024 |
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire may refer to: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), French... 430 bytes (87 words) - 18:46, 24 February 2016 |
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... 6 KB (592 words) - 12:48, 17 November 2023 |
Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1799–1853), French botanist and traveler Caroline St-Hilaire (born 1969), Canadian politician Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, (1772–1844)... 6 KB (830 words) - 17:47, 14 November 2020 |
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... 105 KB (10,458 words) - 02:03, 10 April 2024 |
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)... 3 KB (186 words) - 05:04, 28 April 2023 |
ornithologist Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)... 8 KB (997 words) - 19:57, 23 February 2024 |
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... 40 KB (4,191 words) - 20:09, 16 April 2024 |
of pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas included Denis Diderot, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Grant, and Robert Chambers, the anonymous... 27 KB (3,529 words) - 20:44, 20 December 2023 |
Mutationism (section Geoffroy's monstrosities, 1822) jumps, including immediate speciation. For example, in 1822 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire argued that species could be formed by sudden transformations... 51 KB (5,488 words) - 12:01, 23 March 2024 |
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... 42 KB (5,329 words) - 15:13, 27 March 2024 |
"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... 25 KB (2,908 words) - 07:36, 25 April 2024 |
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... 82 KB (8,540 words) - 07:30, 7 April 2024 |
Inversion was first noted in 1822 by the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, when he dissected a crayfish (an arthropod) and compared it... 16 KB (1,822 words) - 17:34, 22 February 2024 |
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")... 39 KB (3,926 words) - 02:40, 27 April 2024 |
The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. For around... 16 KB (2,279 words) - 07:33, 1 January 2024 |
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... 9 KB (952 words) - 19:23, 30 December 2023 |
1771 – Nicolas Chopin, French-Polish educator (d. 1844) 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844) 1793 – Friedrich Georg... 54 KB (5,493 words) - 17:21, 26 April 2024 |
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... 25 KB (2,311 words) - 02:10, 17 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,456 words) - 00:01, 26 March 2024 |
and imagined, fascinated several of Sclater's contemporaries. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, also looking at the relationship between animals in India and... 17 KB (2,022 words) - 20:07, 12 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,207 words) - 10:34, 17 April 2024 |
Spider monkey (category Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire) fusciceps fusciceps Colombian spider monkey, Ateles fusciceps rufiventris Geoffroy's spider monkey, Ateles geoffroyi Hooded spider monkey Ateles geoffroyi... 28 KB (2,938 words) - 05:04, 27 April 2024 |