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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.
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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.
Apr 8, 2024 · Edward Drinker Cope (born July 28, 1840, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died April 12, 1897, Philadelphia) 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.
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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.
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EDWARD DRINKER COPE BY HENRY FAIRFISIJD OSBORN INTRODUCTION Edward Drinker Cope was born in Philadelphia, the cradle of American philosophic and scientific thought, on July 28, 1840, grew up a contemporary of the palaeontology which Georges Cuvier had founded in 1799, and spent his life and a consider-able fortune in its furtherance.
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Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, former friends turned competing paleontologists, began scouring the American West for prehistoric fossil deposits in the hopes of discovering...
May 21, 2018 · Philadelphia, 12 April 1897) vertebrate paleontology, zoology. 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.
