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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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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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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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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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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implied "some supernatural force". The American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson (1953) attacked orthogenesis, linking it with vitalism by describing...
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decades of work aimed at confirming their existence. Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson (1984) lists cryptozoology among examples of human gullibility,...
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Madtsoia (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: †Madtsoiidae Genus: †Madtsoia Simpson, 1933 Species M. bai Simpson, 1933 (type) M. camposi Rage, 1998 M. madagascariensis Hoffstetter...
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modern-day marsupials. Its fossils were first discovered and named by George Gaylord Simpson in 1929. Not much is known about the appearance of Alphadon, as...
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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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were identified as bones of a very large jaguar and an elk fawn. George Gaylord Simpson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the museum, subsequently visited...
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indicate that even Hyracoidea had an aquatic ancestor. In 1945, George Gaylord Simpson used traditional taxonomic techniques to group these spectacularly...
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"normal" molar. George Gaylord Simpson, The "Plagiaulacoid" Type of Mammalian Dentition A Study of Convergence George Gaylord Simpson Journal of Mammalogy...
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mammals of the family Gypsonictopidae, which was described in 1927 by George Gaylord Simpson. Species in this genus were small mammals and the first representatives...
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Teilhardina (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
Eocene epoch, about 56-47 million years ago. The paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson is credited with naming it after the French paleontologist, Jesuit...
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Sebecus (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
Named by American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson in 1937, Sebecus was one of the first known sebecosuchians. Simpson described the type species, S...
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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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been nothing more than a spotted hyena." Similarly, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson commented that the Nandi bear "turned out to be in most if not all...
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Saigini (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
American paleontologist and theoretical biologist George Gaylord Simpson. According to the Simpson classification the tribe comprises two monospecific...
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families were related to each other after American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson in 1945: Order Carnivora Bowdich, 1821 Suborder Fissipedia Blumenbach...
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The genus was named by William Diller Matthew, W. Granger and George Gaylord Simpson in 1928. Many workers believe that members of the Taeniolabidoidea...
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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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Adaptation and Natural Selection (category Books by George C. Williams)
V. C. Wynne-Edwards. The book takes its title from a lecture by George Gaylord Simpson in January 1947 at Princeton University. Aspects of the book were...
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Florentino Ameghino, W. D. Matthew, W. B. Scott, Bryan Patterson, George Gaylord Simpson and S. David Webb. The Pliocene timing of the formation of the connection...
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Carpolestes (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
Genus: †Carpolestes Simpson, 1928 Type species †Carpolestes nigridens Paleospecies †C. dubius Jepsen, 1930 †C. nigridens Simpson, 1928 †C. simpsoni Bloch...
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media related to Wallacea. Conservation International: Wallacea George Gaylord Simpson (Apr. 29, 1977), "Too Many Lines; The Limits of the Oriental and...
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Quantum evolution is a component of George Gaylord Simpson's multi-tempoed theory of evolution proposed to explain the rapid emergence of higher taxonomic...
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Paraptenodytes brodkorbi (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
the femur piece turned out to be from Paraptenodytes antarcticus. George Gaylord Simpson (1946) and Pierce Brodkorb (1963) argued about whether the bones...
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Lemmini (category Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson)
Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Lemmini Simpson, 1945 Genera Lemmus Myopus Synaptomys Synonyms Synaptomyini Koenigswald...
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