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George Gaylord Simpson
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- Born in Chicago, George Gaylord Simpson, probably the most influential paleontological thinker of the mid-20th century, was trained at Yale in vertebrate paleontology. In 1927 he took up a curatorial position in fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, where he spent most of his career before proceeding to Harvard and then to the University of Arizona. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Simpson, George Gaylord (1902–1984)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/George_Gaylord_Simpson
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