মানুষের উদ্ভবের ও বিকাশের বিবর্তন তত্ত্বটির প্রথম বিরোধিতা কে করেন ?
Evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the early 19th century with the theory of the transmutation of species put forward by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Evolution was at first opposed among the scientific community, notably by Georges Cuvier, and religious grounds. The idea that laws control nature and society gained vast popular audiences with George Combe's "The Constitution of Man" of 1828 and the anonymous "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" of 1844. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book "On the Origin of Species", he convinced most of the scientific community that new species arise through descent through modification in a branching pattern of divergence from common ancestors, but while most scientists accepted that natural selection is a valid and empirically testable hypothesis, Darwin's view that it is the primary mechanism of evolution was rejected by some.
Georges Cuvier