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George Gaylord Simpson Born: 1902 Died: 1984 George Gaylord Simpson is one of the founders of Modern Synthesis during the 1930’s. Modern Synthesis is the synthesis of natural selection. He argued that the fossil record supported Darwin’s theory that natural selection was the driving force behind evolution. He worked on the problem of rates of evolution. In 1927, Simpson was hired at the American Museum of Natural History as assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology. He studied many fossil, but he made the evolution of the horse his specialty. Then, in 1951 he published his book //Horses.// In 1944 he published his book //Tempo and Mode in Evolution//, introducing the term quantum evolution.

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