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Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19.
Jul 24, 2024 · Edward Drinker Cope was a paleontologist who discovered approximately a thousand species of extinct vertebrates in the United States and led a revival of Lamarckian evolutionary theory, based largely on paleontological views.
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. He discovered and named many fossils , and was a regarded as a brilliant scientist.
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), Professor of Geology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania. SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-1285]. Professor (Haverford College, University of Pennsylvania), U.S. Geological Survey member, zoologist, student of Spencer Fullerton Baird, and owner and editor of American Naturalist.
Edward Drinker Cope’s skull started out on his body, naturally enough. Born into a well-off Quaker family in 1840, the Philadelphia native was already journaling and drawing his observations...
May 21, 2018 · A pioneer in the development of American vertebrate paleontology. Cope gained notoriety for his disputes with Othniel C. Marsh and fame as the leading theorist of the neo-Lamarckian movement in American biology.
Jan 1, 2012 · Edward Drinker Cope studied fossils and anatomy in the US in the late nineteenth century. Based on his observations of skeletal morphology, Cope developed a novel mechanism to explain the law of parallelism, the idea that developing organisms successively pass through stages resembling their ancestors.
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