The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin

by Toby A. Appel

For scientists, no event better represents the contest between form and function as the chief organizing principle of life as the debate between Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the celebrated French scientific controversy that focused the attention of naturalists in the first decades of the nineteenth century on the conflicting claims of teleology, morphology, and evolution, which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041380
• ISBN13: 9780195041385
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"