"Among Scott's outstanding contributions to the study of evolution were two memoirs, both published in 1891, the first on ' and the second on ' and '. Besides the descriptive parts of these papers, the first included a list of what Scott considered the most important questions regarding evolution and the second attempted to answer these questions from the paleontological point of view."
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William Berryman Scott
(February 12, 1858 – March 29, 1947) was an American paleontologist and professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University. He was elected in 1886 a Member of the , in 1906 a Member of the U.S. , and in 1925 a Fellow of the . He received in 1910 the , in 1930 the , in 1939 the , and in 1940 the .
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