The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, founded on its eastern banks. The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction past Perugia and Rome to meet the sea at Ostia.
Urie Bronfenbrenner, an American psychologist, developed the Ecological Systems Theory in order to further discuss and explain child development. Bronfenbrennerâs theory explains that there are certain cultural and social factors within a childâs immediate environment that influences the childâs development and experience.
Cuvier's work on the extinction of animals and the progressive creation of new species provided a ground work for Darwin's theory of evolution. Cuvier established proof that many species like dinosaurs had become extinct in ages past. Cuvier proposed that after each series of catastrophes new species had been created. Cuvier's work on extinctions was incorporated into Darwin's theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest.