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Simpson, George Gaylord was born on June 16, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph Alexander and Helen Julia (Kinney) Simpson.
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This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Contents include types and properties of numerical data, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability. "Excellent." — Florida Scientist.
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from Wikipedia: George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary 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. He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and Curator of the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1945 to 1959. He was Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1959 to 1970, and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 1982.
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A collection of earlier published essays brought together into one volume. The essays treat Darwin, the nature of historical biology, the problem of apparent purpose in living nature, and thoughts about cosmic evolution and the human evolutionary future.
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Why should someone write a book about the history of mammals in South America, and why should others read it? For a start, there are many strange animals in South America, fascinating to almost everyone: opossums, armadillos, tree sloths, anteaters, monkeys in great varieties, capybaras, wild guinea pigs, tucu-tucus, and many other native rodents, jaguars and rather weird maned wolves, tapirs, peccaries, llamas, to name just a few. Here is indeed an interesting mixture of creatures, and it takes only a modicum of human curiosity to want to know their history and to learn, as far as possible, how that mixture arose. It is a mixture. Some of those animals have had ancestors and relatives confined to South America at the beginning of the Age of Mammals and long thereafter, although some have more recently spread into tropical Central American and a few even into the United States. Some appear suddenly in the middle of the history, while others appear rather later in this history as migrants from North America. This is a study of those historical mixtures.
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Consists of selected excerpts from previous writing by Professor Simpson - without any doubt the most eminent of all evolutionary biologists. Each of the six sections begins with a general statement about the subjects to be covered. Each separate text is preceded by a comment, the purpose of which is to provide background and context for the following text and also, when appropriate, to discuss the present status of the subject. Thus although the book is centred on papers previously published, its comments are new and in sum present a current viewpoint on the subjects treated
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(George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) was an American paleon...)
George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary 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. He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and Curator of the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1945 to 1959. He was Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1959 to 1970, and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 1982. In 1943 Simpson was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.5 For his work, Tempo and mode in evolution, he was awarded the Academy's Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal in 1944.6 He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958. Simpson also received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal 'In recognition of his distinguished contributions to general evolutionary theory, based on a profound study of palaeontology, particularly of vertebrates,' in 1962. This is the story of his life and work in his own words.
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Simpson, George Gaylord was born on June 16, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph Alexander and Helen Julia (Kinney) Simpson.
Student, University Colorado, 1922. Bachelor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1923. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1926.
Doctor of Science, Yale University, 1946. Doctor of Science, Princeton, 1947. Doctor of Science, University Durham, 1951.
Doctor of Science, Oxford University, 1951. Doctor of Science, University New Mexico, 1954. Doctor of Science, University Chicago, 1959.
Doctor of Science, Cambridge (England) University, 1965. Doctor of Science, York University, 1966. Doctor of Science, Kenyon College, 1968.
Doctor of Science, University Colorado, 1968. Doctor of Laws, University Glasgow, 1951. Doctor honorary, University Paris, France, 1965.
Doctor honorary, Universidad de la Plata, Argentina, 1977.
Marsh fellow, research on Mesozoic mammals, Peabody Museum, Yale, 1924-1926; field assistant, American Museum National History, New York City, 1924; assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology, American Museum National History, New York City, 1927; associate curator, American Museum National History, New York City, 1928-1942; curator of fossil mammals, American Museum National History, New York City, 1942-1959; department chairman geology and paleontology, American Museum National History, New York City, 1944-1958; professor vertebrate paleontology, Columbia, 1945-1959; Agassiz professor vertebrate paleontology, Museum Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1959-1970; professor geoscience, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1967-1984; president, trustee, Simroe Foundation, 1968-1984. National Research Council and International Education Board fellow in work on early fossil mammals, chiefly in British Museum, London, also other institutions, England, France and Germany, 1926-1927. Expeditions to collect fossil animals include Northern Texas, Montana, New Mexico, Florida and S.E. States, Argentina, Venezuala, Brazil.
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(Consists of selected excerpts from previous writing by Pr...)
( This classic focuses on the gathering, handling, and in...)
(from Wikipedia: George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - O...)
(A collection of earlier published essays brought together...)
(George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) was an American paleon...)
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(1980. Hardcover. 266 pages.)
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Served to major United States Army, 1942-1944. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Geological Society of America, Paleontological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Society Vertebrate Paleontology (secretary-treasurer 1940-1941, president 1942), Society Study Evolution (president 1946), American Society Mammologists, Society Systematic Zoology (president 1962), American Society Zoologists (president 1964), Academia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), Academia Nazionale dei Extra Large (Italy), Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Geography Gaea (honorary correspondent), Zoological Society London (foreign member), Royal Society (foreign member), Linnean Society London (foreign member), Academia de Ciencias (Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina), Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina (honorary member), Deutsch Gesellschaft für Saugetierkunde (honorary), Senkenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Lydia Pedroja, February 2, 1923 (divorced April 1938). Children: Helen Frances, Patricia (deceased), Joan, Elizabeth. Married second. Anne Roe, May 27, 1938.