Overview

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), one of the founding figures of vertebrate palaeontology, pursued a successful scientific career despite the political upheavals in France during his lifetime. In the 1790s, Cuvier's work on fossil mammoths enabled him to recognise that these were a different species from modern elephants, and that extinction was a scientific fact. He went on to show that many other large mammals had also become extinct. This four-volume work, originally published in 1812, is a collection of Cuvier's geological and osteological papers, focusing on fossil mammals including mastodon, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ruminants, horses and pigs, and related living species. The introductory essay considers human origins and the formation of the earth, and appeared in English translation in 1813 (also available). Cuvier went on to publish his famous Le regne animal, available in the Cambridge Library Collection both in French (1817) and in Edward Griffith's expanded English translation (1827-35).

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Author:   Georges Cuvier
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 10.40cm , Length: 25.70cm
Weight:   3.490kg
ISBN:  

9781108083805

ISBN 10:   1108083803
Pages:   2028
Publication Date:   12 March 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Volume 1: Avertissement; Discours preliminaire; Memoire sur l'ibis des anciens Egyptiens; Description mineralogique des environs de Paris; Corrections et additions aux tomes II, III et IV. Volume 2: 1. Remarques generales sur la famille des pachydermes; 2. Description osteologique et comparative du daman; 3. Description osteologique du rhinoceros unicorne; 4 Sur les ossemens fossiles de rhinoceros; 5. Sur l'hippopotame et sur son osteologie; 6. Sur les ossemens fossiles d'hippopotames; 7. Description osteologique du tapir; 8. Sur les ossemens fossiles de tapir; 9. Sur les elephans vivans et fossiles; 10. Sur le grand mastodonte, vulg. animal de l'Ohio; 11. Sur divers mastodontes de moindre taille; 12. Resume general de cette premiere partie. Volume 3: 1. Introduction; 2. Sur les especes d'animaux dont proviennent les os fossiles de Paris. Volume 4: 1. Ossemens de ruminans, de chevaux, et de cochons; 2. Ossemens de carnassiers et d'autres onguicules; 3. Ossemens fossiles de quadrupedes.

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