Personal Life
Where was George Cuvier born?
Montbéliard (then part of Württemberg, now France)
Where did George Cuvier study comparative anatomy?
Académie Caroline (Karlsschule) in Stuttgart
What type of ancient objects did Mary Anning collect and sell along the cliffs of Lyme Regis?
Fossils
George Cuvier is called the “Father of _______.”
Paleontology
True or False: Mary Anning could join the Geological Society of London during her lifetime.
False
In what year was Mary Anning born?
1799
How did Mary Anning learn to read and write?
Sunday school
True or False: George Cuvier proved that some animals that once lived are now extinct.
True
What principle in anatomy did Cuvier develop, allowing him to reconstruct skeletons?
The correlation of parts
What book did Cuvier publish in 1825 about Earth’s catastrophic events?
Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe
What nationality was George Cuvier?
French
Who taught George Cuvier dissection?
Karl Kielmayer
George Cuvier studied the fossils of which giant Ice Age animals?
Mammoths
Cuvier grouped animals into four major branches. Name two of them.
Vertebrata, Articulata, Mollusca, Radiata
The tongue twister “She sells seashells by the seashore” was inspired by whom?
Mary Anning
What tragic event forced Mary Anning to start collecting fossils as a child?
Her father’s death when she was 11
What type of education did Mary Anning have in geology and anatomy?
She was self-taught using borrowed books
In 1823, Mary Anning discovered the first complete skeleton of what long-necked reptile?
Plesiosaurus
Mary Anning’s fossil discoveries provided evidence for what scientific concept?
Extinction
Which scientist initially doubted Mary Anning’s plesiosaur discovery but later admitted she was right?
George Cuvier
On what date was George Cuvier born?
August 23, 1769
In what city did George Cuvier become a professor at the National Museum of Natural History?
Paris
At age 12, Mary Anning discovered the first complete skeleton of what animal?
Ichthyosaurus
Which scientific theory did Cuvier strongly oppose, even though his work helped support it later?
Evolution (Darwin’s natural selection)
Whose later work built on the foundation laid by both Cuvier and Anning, revolutionizing biology?
Charles Darwin