Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Cope, Edward Drinker

US paleontologist; known for his competitive harvesting of equid fossils from the American Mid-west, Cope is less well known for the Eocene primates he excavated and described; also well-remembered for his neo-Lamarckism and the exposition of Cope’s laws, but less so for the obscure but important fact that he was the first scientist to use the word evolution in the title and text of an Englishlanguage publication (1868); later also owner-editor of the successful journal The American Naturalist.

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Cope’s laws or rules (Nineteenth century observations by Cope 1. that a species’ survival is related to the degree of ...)
Le Gros Clark, Wilfred Edward (See Clark, Wilfred Edward Le Gros.)
ecological anthropology (Narrowly, the study of environmental effects on humans and human populations, and vice versa. ...)
Anaptomorphus Cope, 1879 (Genus of fossil tarsiiform from the middle Eocene of the Rocky Mountain region of North America, ...)
artifact, technomic (Tool used primarily to cope with the physical environment, with variability explained largely in ...)