Background
Matthew was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of George Frederic Matthew and Katherine (Diller) Matthew. His father was an amateur geologist and paleontologist who instilled his son with an abiding interest in the earth sciences.
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William Diller Matthew
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William Diller Matthew Federal Reserve System was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on trilobites, and he described Tetraceratops insignis, which was much later suggested to be the oldest known therapsid.
Education
Matthew received an Bachelor of Arts at the University of New Brunswick in 1889 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University in 1894.
Career
Matthew believed that the first humans had originated in Asia, he visited Asia by taking part in the Central Asiatic expeditions. Matthew was also well known for his deeply influential 1915 article "Climate and evolution”, Matthews theory was that climate change was how organisms came to live where we find them today in opposition to the theory of continental drift. His basic premise was that cyclical changes in global climate along with the prevailing tendency for mammals to disperse from north to south account for the odd geographic patterns of living mammals, he believed that humans and many other groups of modern mammals first evolved in the northern areas of the globe, especially central Asia because of the shifting climatic circumstances, Matthew firmly placed hominid origins in central Asia as he claimed that the high plateaux of Tibet was the forcing ground of mammalian evolution.
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Dinosaurs: With Special Reference To The American Museum Collections (1915)
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Dinosaurs: With Special Reference To The American Museum Collections (1915)
Membership
Fellow New York Academy Sciences, Geological Society America, Paleontological Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Zoöl. Society, Royal Society (Lordon).
Connections
Married Kate Lee, July 15, 1905. Children: Elizabeth Lee, Margaret Mary, William Pomeroy.
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United States