George Gaylord Simpson- Signed Newspaper Photo (Paleontologist)

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(1902–1984)
7.5x5.25 Newspaper photo signed in black felt tip ink by George Gaylord Simpson. Some edge creases, otherwise, in good condition. He was a US paleontologist who was the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern synthesis, contributing Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944), The Meaning of Evolution (1949) and The Major Features of Evolution (1953). He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. He anticipated such concepts as punctuated equilibrium (in Tempo and mode) and dispelled the myth that the evolution of the horse was a linear process culminating in the modern Equus caballus. He coined the word hypodigm in 1940, and published extensively on the taxonomy of fossil and extant mammals. Simpson was influentially, and incorrectly, opposed to Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
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