Problem: What did Aristotle/Cuvier think about evolution?

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Aristotle thought of an idea to include the development of organisms and the origins of groups of organisms. He thought that organisms were created as simple, complew and extremely complex and thought to provide a scale that would visualize the hierarchy of simplicity and complexity of organisms. 

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What did Aristotle/Cuvier think about evolution?

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