Portrait CDV photograph of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873) shown teaching at a blackboard. Agassiz was a Swiss- American palaeontologist and geologist. He became of the most celebrated scientists of the 19th century,establishing his name through a huge study of fossil fish which he published between 1833 and 1844. Agassiz is also remembered for his work on glaciation where he showed that glaciers advanced and retreated over time. He is generally credited with the discovery of the ice ages. However he was a staunch believer in the immutability of species,and in the polygenic racial history of man. He was Darwin's main opponent in the USA and is now critisied for racist views which at times seem beyond even the 19th century 'white average' | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Stewart, Paul D. |
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