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Born December 28, 1894 • White Plains • New York
Died November 5, 1973 (aged 78) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Notable Works “The Vertebrate Body” • “Vertebrate Paleontology”
Subjects Of Study vertebrate • evolution • fossil

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George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Lynn Margulis
American biologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist

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