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Encyclopedia > George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations.


Simpson was the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century and a major participant in the Modern synthesis. 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.


His main publications were Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944) and Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals (1945).


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Evolution: Library: George Gaylord Simpson: Natural Selection and the Fossil Record (461 words)
As one of the founders of the "modern synthesis" of evolution, paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson argued that the fossil record supports Darwin's theory that natural selection acting on random variation in a population is the driving force behind evolution.
Simpson was among the first to use mathematical methods in paleontology, and he also took into account newly discovered genetic evidence for evolution in his study of paleontology.
Simpson argued that the evolution of mammals, as seen in their fossilized remains, fit perfectly well with the new mechanisms of population genetics being studied at the time.
George Gaylord Simpson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (215 words)
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.
Simpson was the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century and a major participant in the Modern synthesis, contribting Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944) and Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals (1945).
George Gaylord Simpson - biographical sketch from The Stephen Jay Gould Archive
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