“…The Zoological curriculum, in general, sought to encompass discussions on diverse animal aspects, from their anatomy and physiology to their classification and behavioral actions, following epistemological assumptions developed from studies associated to Georges Cuvier (1769Cuvier ( -1832. Cuvier was a prestigious zoologist and head of the Anatomy and Comparative Physiology chair at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, in Paris, influencing and dictating 19 th century curriculum guidelines on Zoology research and teaching, also associated to paleontology in the pre-Darwinian era (Milne-Edwards, 1858;Caponi, 2008).…”