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Jennifer Clack

Jennifer Clack (1947–2020) was a prominent British paleontologist who specialized in the evolution of early tetrapods. B...

Historical British Devonian Vertebrates

9.68 Brilliant

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A. S. Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer studied vertebrate evolution with particular attention to the early history of animals that lived...

American Historical Paleozoic Vertebrates

9.65 Brilliant

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Zhe-Xi Luo

Zhe-Xi Luo is a Chinese American paleontologist and professor whose research focuses on the morphology and evolution of...

Evolution Anatomy Mammals Chinese American

9.58 Brilliant

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Harry Blackmore Whittington

Harry Blackmore Whittington was a British paleontologist known for his studies of trilobites and Cambrian fossils. As a...

Historical British Cambrian Burgess Shale

9.58 Brilliant

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George Cuvier

French naturalist Georges Cuvier helped establish extinction as a scientific fact by comparing fossil remains with the b...

French Historical Cenozoic Vertebrates

9.55 Brilliant

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Shuhai Xiao

Shuhai Xiao is a Chinese-American paleobiologist and a professor at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the Precambri...

Early Life Chinese American Precambrian Ediacaran

9.11 Excellent

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Elso Barghoorn

Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn (1915–1984) was an American paleobotanist who established the field of Precambrian micropaleo...

American Historical Precambrian Paleobotany

9.11 Excellent

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Mary Droser

Mary Droser is an American paleontologist and a professor at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in in...

American Paleoecology Invertebrates Ediacaran

9.04 Excellent

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Rachel Wood

Rachel Wood is a British paleontologist and geobiologist who serves as a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her a...

British Reefs Invertebrates Ediacaran

9.03 Excellent

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Tanja Bosak

Tanja Bosak is a geobiologist and paleontologist whose research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigate...

Early Life Precambrian Microfossils Geobiology

8.91 Great

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Susannah Porter

Susannah Porter is an American paleontologist on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose resea...

American Early Life Precambrian Micropaleontology

8.63 Great

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Guy Narbonne

Guy Narbonne is a Canadian paleontologist and professor at Queen's University whose research focuses on early multicellu...

Canadian Fieldwork Precambrian Invertebrates

8.58 Great

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Emily Mitchell

Emily Mitchell is a British paleontologist and paleoecologist whose research focuses on the spatial ecology of early ani...

British Quantitative Paleoecology Invertebrates

8.52 Great

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Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll is a paleontologist specializing in the study of early life during the Precambrian era. His research foc...

USA Early Life Precambrian Microfossils

8.40 Great

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Phoebe Cohen

Phoebe Cohen is an American paleontologist and geobiologist specializing in the study of early eukaryotic evolution. Her...

American Early Life Precambrian Micropaleontology

7.86 Good

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Martin Brasier

Martin Brasier was a British paleobiologist at the University of Oxford whose research examined the early fossil record...

Britain Early Life Precambrian Microfossils

7.47 Good

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Guy M. Narbonne

Guy M. Narbonne is a Canadian paleontologist and professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His research focu...

Canada Early Life Paleoecology Ediacaran

7.32 Good

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Bruce Runnegar

Bruce Runnegar is an Australian paleontologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), whose...

Australia Early Life Invertebrates Mollusks

7.29 Good

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J. William Schopf

J. William Schopf is an American paleobiologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is...

USA Early Life Precambrian Microfossils

7.21 Good

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Mark McMenamin

Mark McMenamin is an American paleontologist and geologist known for work on Precambrian and early animal fossils. He is...

American Precambrian Invertebrates Paleobiology

4.62 Poor