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Pushing Daisies
Composition
On the Shoulders of Giants
Birthdays
"Dem bones"
100
The disappearance of a species from the biological record.
What is extinction?
100
An orangutan strangling a savage
What is the statue at the front of the museum
100
He opposed theories of evolution but was one of the great comparative anatomists
Who is Georges Cuvier
100
1635
What is the birth date of the Jardin des Plantes?
100
The ulna
What is one of the distal bones of the arm called?
200
Developed the concept of extinction
Who is Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
200
the number of plant species in the Herbarium.
Approximately 8 million specimens
200
The royal physician for King Louis XIII
Who founded the Jardin des Plantes?
200
1793
What is birth date of the Museum of Natural History?
200
The knee cap, to a doctor
What is the patella?
300
Before they were recognized as having an organic origin, these were thought to be "refuse from Hell".
What are fossils?
300
Botany, Paleontology, Mineralogy, Zoology, Ecology
What are the Institutes that constitute the Jardin des Plantes?
300
By studying "monstrous births" he came to the belief that this might be how a new species suddenly arises.
Who is Geoffroy Sainte Hilaire
300
200 Million BC
What is approximate age of the dinosaurs
300
Frontal bossing
What is the consequence of an overgrown frontal bone, seen most notably in Neanderthals.
400
Before the idea of evolution, this was a description of the belief that species can change
What is transmutation
400
This collection is comprised primarily of non-aggressive species
What are the animals in the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes?
400
He first suggested a viable theory of species change
Who was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
400
Cuvier identified this creature as being distinct from a modern elephant
What is the wholly mammoth
400
Dermestid beetle colonies
What is the best way to skeletonize a dead animal?
500
The concept that all living being were created simultaneously, generated at the moment of Creation
What is preformism
500
Emmanuel Fremeit, in 1895
Who is the artist who made the statue of the orangutan strangling a savage
500
He is credited with the idea of the fixity of species, despite fossil evidence to the contrary
Who is Georges Cuvier
500
Between 3-7 million years ago
What is approximate age of the first hominid?
500
The toe bone connected to the heel bone, The heel bone connected to the foot bone, The foot bone connected to...
What is the leg bone?