Talk:George Gaylord Simpson

message: Some here; the earliest ones must be public domain by their age (pre 1923). Richard001 (talk) 03:12, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hang on, that's for published works. Since these were probably never published, that won't apply. Richard001 (talk) 07:42, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
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George Gaylord Simpson was one of the major evolutionary biologists of the 20th century.  He is considered one of the founders of the modern evolutionary synthesis and is particularly important as the only paleontologist among its founders.  His achievements include
* With Ernst Mayr, being the chief advocates of the evolutionary systematics approach to biological classification
* Assimilating the adaptive topographies of Sewall Wright into paleontology in his discussion of adaptive zones
* Arguing the relevance of these views in explaining long-term evolutionary change, and thereby arguing against separate mechanisms for long-term evolution than for short-term evolution
* Doing some of the first quantitative examinations of rates of evolution in the fossil record
* Major discussion of species concepts, putting forward his 'evolutionary species concept' as competition with the 'biological species concept'
He was also a major mammalian paleontologist, specializing in South American mammals.  His classification of mammals was the most important one of the 20th century and has continued to be the basis for later revisions using molecular sequences.
This is hinted at in the introduction of this page, but then most of the space below seems to go to his criticisms of exobiology, surely one of the least importanr things he ever did!   Felsenst (talk) 00:12, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
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