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François Jules Pictet de la Rive

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made notes on Pictet's Paleontology and these have been suggested as giving a structure for his 'Sarawak Law' paper of 1855 which contains the assertion that "Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species": this, omitting the word
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in a lengthy review. Darwin noted that "Of all the opposed reviews I think this the only quite fair one, & I never expected to see one." Darwin predicted that Pictet would eventually support his theory but this was not the case. He never abandoned his view of successive species creation.
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that some species had evolved from earlier ancestors but denied that entire groups of species had evolved through gradual transformation. He reviewed Charles Darwin's
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by giving demonstrations in comparative anatomy. Five years later, when de Candolle retired, Pictet was appointed professor of zoology and comparative anatomy.
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and palaeontology, and these he continued to teach until 1859, when he retired to devote his energies to the
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Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes...
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Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community
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He directed his attention to the fossils of his native country, more especially to those of the
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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from 1847 to 1850, and again from 1866 to 1868. He was for many years a member of the "
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In 1846 his duties were restricted to certain branches of zoology, including
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by François Jules Pictet de la Rive can be found in the database VIATIMAGES
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Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des insectes névroptères
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strata, and in 1854 he commenced the publication of his great work,
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Recherches pour servir à l'histoire et à l'anatomie des Phryganides
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Swiss
zoologist
palaeontologist
Geneva
Georges Cuvier
de Blainville
natural history
comparative anatomy
A. P. de Candolle
geology
museum of natural history
rector
Academy
Grand Conseil
Canton of Geneva

entomology
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Eugène Renevier
Gustave Campiche
Alois Humbert
Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol
Auguste Jaccard
Philippe de La Harpe
Elapotinus picteti

Cimetière des Rois
Pantheon

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