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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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