George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the...
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George Simpson (botanist) (1880–1952), New Zealand botanist George Simpson (Royal Navy officer) (1901–1972), British admiral George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)...
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Look up Gaylord in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gaylord is a name of Norman French origin, from the Old French gaillard meaning "joyful" or "high-spirited"...
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are blended as they were in the person of Teilhard de Chardin." George Gaylord Simpson felt that if Teilhard were right, the lifework "of Huxley, Dobzhansky...
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Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944) was George Gaylord Simpson's seminal contribution to the evolutionary synthesis, which integrated the facts of paleontology...
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synthesis included E. B. Ford, Bernhard Rensch, Ivan Schmalhausen, and George Gaylord Simpson. An early event in the modern synthesis was R. A. Fisher's 1918...
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text by 1926 in response to the Scopes Trial controversy. However, George Gaylord Simpson challenged this notion as confusing cause and effect, and instead...
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Palaeospheniscus bilocular (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
Fossilworks.org Simpson, George Gaylord (1946): Fossil penguins. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 87: 7-99. PDF fulltext Simpson, George Gaylord (1970): Miocene...
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implied "some supernatural force". The American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson (1953) attacked orthogenesis, linking it with vitalism by describing...
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unpredictable and uncontrolled as the journey out. Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson wrote a novella, published posthumously, The Dechronization of Sam...
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