Mummified animals brought back from Egypt by Napoleon’s scientists sparked a pre-Darwinian debate about evolution
Georges Cuvier (left) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck fundamentally disagreed about whether or not species can change over time.GeorgiosArt/iStock via Getty Images Plus; Kean Collection/Archive Photos via Getty Images Decades before Darwin, there was a debate about transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues from the French natural history museum faced each other. They … Read more