Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Local nameÉtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Location20th arrondissement of Paris, France

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken. He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne_Geoffroy_Saint-Hilaire

Address Chemin du Dragon, Paris 75020, France

Coordinates 48°51'34.272" N 2°23'41.992" E

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