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Georges Cuvier

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Researcher in comparative anatomy and natural history. Cuvier organized collections so that structures from different vertebrates could be compared systematically, and his work on fossils helped establish that some represented extinct species.[ref][ref]
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Portrait of Georges Cuvier
. Nicolas-Eustache Maurin (1832); Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne / NUBIS, ark:/15733/m68h. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.  Source.

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