"I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important."
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Cited in: (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250
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George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 β 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).
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