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About Camille Dareste
- Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille Dareste de la Chavanne (22 November 1822, Paris – 1899, Paris) was a French zoologist and specialist in experimental embryology. He obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1847 and his doctorate in science in 1851.
- He worked at the University of Lille, where he was chair to the faculty of natural history from 1864 to 1872.
- In 1872 he was appointed professor of ichthyology and herpetology at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
- He was named director of the laboratory of teratology, and from 1875, associated with the École des Hautes-études.
- He was awarded the grand prize in physiology by the Académie des sciences for the treatise Recherches sur la production artificielle de monstruosités (1877).He was a founder of teratogeny, it being defined as the experimental study of conditions for the artificial production of monstrosities.
- Beginning in 1855, he purposely produced monstrous chick embryos by using "indirect methods" that exposed the egg to teratogenic factors — such as, implementing lowered incubation temperatures for several hours.
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