Quatrefages de Breau, Jean Louis Armand de (1810–1892)

French anthropologist and naturalist. Working on human craniums, he studied human evolution and wrote a Histoire générale des races humaines/General History of the Human Races 1886–89.

Quatrefages was born in Berthezen, Gard département and studied at Strasbourg. He was professor of zoology at Toulouse 1833–40, but was then drawn to Paris, where he lived by illustrating books and writing articles. In 1855, after lecturing for five years at the Lycée Napoléon, he was appointed professor of anatomy and ethnology at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle.

Among his books were Charles Darwin et ses precurseurs français/Charles Darwin and His French Precursors 1870 and Crania ethnica 1875–82.