Multiple choice

Who is known as the father of palaeontology?

  1. Luis Alvarez

  2. Georges Cuvier

  3. Roy Andrews

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) is widely recognized as the father of paleontology for establishing extinction as a fact and developing comparative anatomy. Luis Alvarez worked on dinosaur extinction theories but is not the founder, and Roy Andrews was a later explorer.

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