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Apr 15, 1772 Étampes, Île de France, France Died on 19 Jun 1844 (aged 72)
French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition"
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About Étienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition".
- He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories.
- Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's materialistic views) and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken.
- He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology.
