George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)
Autore di Il significato dell'evoluzione: storia della vita e del suo valore per l'uomo
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Nota di disambiguazione:
(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.
Fonte dell'immagine: June 1926 Yale PhD photo inscribed "for Professor R.S.Lull with the deepest regards of his pupil George G. Simpson"
Opere di George Gaylord Simpson
Horses: The Story of the Horse Family in the Modern World and Through Sixty Million Years of History (1951) 25 copie
Behavior and evolution — A cura di — 11 copie
The principles of classification and a classification of mammals (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History) (1945) 8 copie
Discoverers of the lost world : an account of some of those who brought back to life South American mammals long buried… (1984) 7 copie
A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum (1928) 3 copie
American Mesozoic Mammalia 2 copie
A Biologia e o Homem 1 copia
Kehitys, luonto ja ihminen 1 copia
Notes on the Nature of Science 1 copia
George Gaylord Simpson 1 copia
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- Data di nascita
- 1902-06-16
- Data di morte
- 1984-10-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- University of Colorado
Yale University (Ph.D.) - Attività lavorative
- paleontologist
professor - Organizzazioni
- The American Museum
Harvard University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1944)
Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1943)
Darwin Medal (1962)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (1958)
Linnean Medal (1962) - Breve biografia
- 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. - Nota di disambiguazione
- 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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- Voto
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- ISBN
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