Étienne Antoine Prosper Jules Rabaud (12 September 1868 in Saint-Affrique – 3 September 1956 in Villemade) was a French zoologist, known for his studies of animal behavior.
From 1894 he served as an assistant in the laboratory of teratology at the École des Hautes-Études, and in 1898 he obtained doctorates in both medicine and sciences.
[2] In 1904 he was named secretary of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris.
[3] In 1937, in his book La Matière vivante et l'hérédité (Living matter and heredity), he was ironic about the "American candor" and "singularly disturbing mentality" of Morgan, of which he rejected without appeal any scientific production.
According to Jean Rostand, this is an example of the distressing attitude that certain French biologists had at that time and which earned France several decades lag in genetics.