{"id":2379,"date":"2007-11-30T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:06:51","slug":"lemurs-november-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2007\/11\/30\/lemurs-november-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemurs – November 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Engraving
Engraving of lemurs from Cuvier, G. – The animal kingdom, arranged
\u00a0after its organization, forming a natural history of\u00a0animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. <\/em>
(London: Orr, 1851)
(19th Century Collection,\u00a019th C. Coll. 590.2 CUV)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Baron Georges L\u00e9opold Chr\u00e9tien Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832) was a significant naturalist and zoologist. He compared living animals with fossils and thus helped to establish the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early Nineteenth Century he argued against prevailing early evolutionary theories that no species had become extinct because God’s creation was faultless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is remembered for having been a strong proponent of catastrophism – the theory that geological features and the history of animal life could be explained by catastrophic events that had caused the extinction of several species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Animal Kingdom, with the exception of ‘Insects’ is all his own work and represents the body of his research into the structure of living and fossilized animals. It became a classic text, translated many times and updated as knowledge increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engraving depicts lemurs, classified as Quadrumana – the second order of Mammalians.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baron Georges L\u00e9opold Chr\u00e9tien Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832) was a significant naturalist and zoologist. He compared living animals with fossils and thus helped to establish the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology. In the early Nineteenth Century he argued against … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":2380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[617,412,616],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-treasure-of-the-month","tag-animal-kingdom","tag-animals","tag-lemurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}