Milne‐Edwards, Henri

Olivier Lagueux, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002876

1800–1885 Belgian-born French zoologist and physiologist who first described the principle of the physiological division of labour.

Keywords: invertebrates; Cuvier; Darwin; creationism

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Further Reading
	book Milne-Edwards H (1834–1840) Histoire naturelle des crustacés. Paris: Roret.
	book Milne-Edwards H (1851) Introduction à la zoologie générale. Paris: V. Masson.
	book Milne-Edwards H (1857–1881) Leçons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparée de l'Homme et des animaux. Paris: V. Masson.
	book Berthelot M (1891) Notice historique sur Henri Milne-Edwards, membre de l'Académie des Sciences. Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin-Didot.
	Crosnier A and Clark PP (1998) Publication dates of the Recherches zoologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la faune de l'Amérique centrale et du Mexique. Archives of Natural History 25: 87–101.
	book Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1970–1980) Gillispie CC (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Limoges C (1994) "Milne-Edwards, Darwin, Durkheim and the division of labour: a case study in reciprocal conceptual exchanges between the social and the natural sciences". In: Cohen IB (ed.) Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences, pp. 317–343. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press.