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George Gaylord Simpson (16 de junio de 1902 – 6 de octubre de 1984) fue paleontólogo y biólogo teórico estadounidense. Especialista en los mamíferos del Mesozoico y del Cenozoico, Simpson es, junto con Theodosius Dobzhansky y Ernst Mayr, uno de los principales teóricos de la Teoría evolutiva sintética. Tempo and Mode in Evolution y The ...
5 days ago · "George Gaylord Simpson" published on by null. (1902–1984)US palaeontologist, whose work did much to shape the postwar development of palaeontology and its impact on evolutionary theory.A native of Chicago, Simpson obtained his first degree in geology from Yale University and stayed there to obtain his doctorate in 1926, with a thesis on ...
Nov 6, 2018 · In the received view of the history of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, paleontology was given a prominent role in evolutionary biology thanks to the significant influence of paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson on both the institutional and conceptual development of the Synthesis. Simpson's 1944 Tempo and Mode in Evolution is considered a classic of Synthesis-era biology, and Simpson often ...
Paleontologist and Evolutionist. In 1978 the distinguished paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson published his autobiography, Concession to the Improbable, which gave the basic facts of his life but left more questions than it answered. Now Léo F. Laporte presents this absorbing intellectual study of Simpson's major areas of work.
George Gaylord Simpson, the youngest of three children, was born in Chicago on 16 June 1902. His father, Joseph Alexander Simpson, practised law; his mother, a graduate of Oberlin College, was the daughter of missionaries in the Hawaiian islands.
Nov 6, 2018 · The received view among historians of science is that the three major “architects” of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis in the 1940s were Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and George Gaylord Simpson. That is to say, the Synthesis was an endeavor inspired, respectively, by a systematist, a geneticist, and a paleontologist, and was a project ...
George Gaylord Simpson. George Gaylord Simpson (16 de junio de 1902 - 6 de octubre de 1984) fue un paleontólogo, geólogo y biólogo estadounidense. 1 . Especialista en los mamíferos del Mesozoico y del Cenozoico, Simpson es, junto con Theodosius Dobzhansky y Ernst Mayr, uno de los principales teóricos de la teoría evolutiva sintética.
