By George Gaylord Simpson
From Wikipedia: George Gaylord Simpson (June sixteen, 1902 - October 6, 1984) used to be an American paleontologist. Simpson was once might be the main influential paleontologist of the 20th century, and an incredible player within the smooth evolutionary synthesis, contributing pace and mode in evolution (1944), The which means of evolution (1949) and the most important positive factors of evolution (1953). He was once knowledgeable on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. He expected such innovations as punctuated equilibrium (in pace and mode) and dispelled the parable that the evolution of the pony was once a linear procedure culminating within the smooth Equus caballus. He coined the notice hypodigm in 1940, and released generally at the taxonomy of fossil and extant mammals. Simpson used to be influentially, and incorrectly, against Alfred Wegener's idea of continental float. He used to be Professor of Zoology at Columbia collage, and Curator of the dep. of Geology and Paleontology on the American Museum of normal historical past from 1945 to 1959. He used to be Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard collage from 1959 to 1970, and a Professor of Geosciences on the college of Arizona until eventually his retirement in 1982.
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