Major Works:

Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1749-1789) Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale.

Piveteau, Jean, ed. (1954) Ouvres Philosophiques de Buffon. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Secondary Sources:

Comas, J. (1958) Buffon, 1707-1788, Precursor de la Antropologia Fisica.  Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autooma de Mexico.sma de Mixico.

Farber, P. L. (1972) Buffon and the concept of species.  Journal of the History of Biology, 5:259-284.

Farber, P. L. (1975) Buffon and Daubenton: Divergent traditions within the Histoire Naturelle. Isis, 66:63-74.

Fellows, O. E., and Milliken, S. F. (1972) Buffon. New York: Twayne.

Gayon, J., et al., eds. (1992) Buffon 88. Paris: J. Vrin.

Mayr, E. (1982) The Growth of Biological Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Roger, Jacques (1963) Les Sciences de la Vie dans la Pensee Francaise du XVIII Siecle. Paris: Armand Colin.

Roger, Jacques (1988) Buffon: Un philosophe au Jardin du Roi. Paris: Fayard.

Scammon, R. E. (1927) The first seriatim study of human growth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 10:329-336.

Sloan, P. R. (1976) The Buffon-Linnaeus controversy. Isis, 67:356-375.

Zocchi, F. (1988) Accuracy of Buffon's 200-year-old experimental data. Nature, 336:318.
 

  • George-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon
  • Buffon's Life
  • Natural History, General and Particular
  • Buffon's Biology
  • Buffon as Crypto-evolutionist
  • Buffon and Biological Anthropology
  • References and additional sources

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