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Died This Day: Louis Dollo

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Author: Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D.
Date: 2015-04-19 16:00:00
Blog: Palaeoblog
URL: http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/died-this-day-louis-dollo.html

Summary:

Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (Dec. 7, 1857 – April 19, 1931) was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stated Dollo's Law of Irreversibility whereby in evolution an organism never returns exactly to its former state such that complex structures, once lost, are not regained in their original form. (While generally true, some exceptions are known.) He began as an assistant (1882), became

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Geographic context:

LocationCountryLatitudeLongitude
FranceFR46.71071.71819

Keywords:

Antoine Marie Joseph, complex structures, Dec., evolution, exceptions, French vertebrate paleontologist, Irreversibility, Joseph Dollo, Law, Louis, organism, original form

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