Cuvier believed there was no evidence for evolution, but rather evidence for cyclical creations and destructions of life forms by global extinction events such as deluges. ... In 1819, he was created a peer for life in honor of his scientific contributions. Thereafter, he was known as Baron Cuvier.

What did George Cuvier contribute to evolution?

He was the first to demonstrate that the different strata of rock in the Paris basin each had its own mammal fauna. Furthermore, he showed that the lower a stratum was, the more different its fossil animals were from species living in the present. Yet Cuvier rejected the idea of organic evolution.

What was Erasmus Darwin's theory of evolution?

Erasmus Darwin discusses the descent of life from a common ancestor, sexual selection, the analogy of artificial selection as a means to understand descent with modification, and a basic concept of what we now refer to as homology.