George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)
Auteur de The Meaning of Evolution
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(eng) George Gaylord Simpson whose CK is above The Meaning of Evolution et. al. He did not write Origin of Species but did write a foreword for an edition.
Crédit image: June 1926 Yale PhD photo inscribed "for Professor R.S.Lull with the deepest regards of his pupil George G. Simpson"
Œuvres de George Gaylord Simpson
Horses: The Story of the Horse Family in the Modern World and Through Sixty Million Years of History (1951) 25 exemplaires
Behavior and evolution — Directeur de publication — 11 exemplaires
The principles of classification and a classification of mammals (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History) (1945) 8 exemplaires
Discoverers of the lost world : an account of some of those who brought back to life South American mammals long buried… (1984) 7 exemplaires
A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum (1928) 3 exemplaires
American Mesozoic Mammalia 2 exemplaires
A Biologia e o Homem 1 exemplaire
Kehitys, luonto ja ihminen 1 exemplaire
Notes on the Nature of Science 1 exemplaire
The rise of the mammals : after dominating the world for millions of years the dinosaurs come to an abrupt end 1 exemplaire
George Gaylord Simpson 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1902-06-16
- Date de décès
- 1984-10-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Études
- University of Colorado
Yale University (Ph.D.) - Professions
- paleontologist
professor - Organisations
- The American Museum
Harvard University - Prix et distinctions
- Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1944)
Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1943)
Darwin Medal (1962)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (1958)
Linnean Medal (1962) - Courte biographie
- George Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution (1944), The meaning of evolution (1949) and The major features of evolution (1953). He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations.nHe anticipated such concepts as punctuated equilibrium (in Tempo and mode) and dispelled the myth that the evolution of the horse was a linear process culminating in the modern Equus caballus. He coined the word hypodigm in 1940, and published extensively on the taxonomy of fossil and extant mammals. Simpson was influentially, and incorrectly, opposed to Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and Curator of the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1945 to 1959. He was Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1959 to 1970, and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 1982. - Notice de désambigüisation
- George Gaylord Simpson whose CK is above The Meaning of Evolution et. al. He did not write Origin of Species but did write a foreword for an edition.
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- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 1,086
- Popularité
- #23,654
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 51
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 2