Edmund Perrier (1844–1921), A French Naturalist Who Discussed the Idea of Chemical Evolution as Early as 1920

摘要

Edmund Perrier was a zoologist and an anatomist who became Director of the National Museum of Natural History of Paris-France from 1900 to 1919. He was a specialist of the benthic fauna and also a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He contributed to popularize many zoological notions concerning anatomy, transformism, and submarine exploration. Interested in the idea of biological evolution, he was however more a supporter of Lamarck’s transformism, than a strong defender of Darwin’s theory.