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1772 – 1844Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844)Died 19 June 1844, aged 72French naturalist who argued for a single underlying plan in animal anatomy. In 1830 he publicly debated this question with Georges Cuvier. His ideas contributed to early theories of evolution.