George Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist, regarded as perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis. He wrote Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944), The Meaning of Evolution (1949) and The Major Features of Evolution (1953), and was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations.
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George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902, October 6, 1984) 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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George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902, October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.
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