George Gaylord Simpson
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 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.
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- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityEast High School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Darwin Medal🏆 Darwin–Wallace Medal🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Penrose Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 R. S. Lull
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1902
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