Cuvier Georges Leopold


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(kyo͞o′vē-ā′, ko͞ov-yā′, kü-vyā′), Baron Georges Léopold 1769-1832.
French zoologist who developed influential methods of comparative anatomy and applied them to both fossil and living animals.
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