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Birth Name:

George Gaylord Simpson

Male

Birth Date:

Mon, Jun 16, 1902

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

121

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

24°

Gem

37'

About George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was a US paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps 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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• George Gaylord Simpson — full and comprehensive biography by L. F. Laporte

• George Gaylord Simpson — biographical sketch from The Stephen Jay Gould Archive

• George Gaylord Simpson — a short biography from the PBS Evolution website

• George Gaylord Simpson Papers, American Philosophical Society.

• George Gaylord Simpson — Open Library

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for George Gaylord Simpson: Sun 24 Gemini, Moon 7 Scorpio, Mercury 5 Cancer, Venus 14 Taurus, Mars 6 Gemini, Jupiter 17 Aquarius, Saturn 26 Capricorn, Uranus 19 Sagittarius, Neptune 0 Cancer, Pluto 18 Gemini, Mercury Conjunct Neptune, Sun Quincunx Saturn, Sun Conjunct Neptune, Sun Conjunct Pluto, Mercury Semi Sextile Mars, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Jupiter, Venus Square Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Jupiter Trine Pluto, Uranus Opposition Pluto

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