George Gaylord Simpson

At the University of Arizona Tucson the Gould-Simpson Building was named for George Gaylord Simpson. George Gaylord Simpson (June 16 1902 – October 6 1984) was an American paleontologist. Views
In the 1960s Simpson "rubbiGeorge Gaylord Simpsond the then-nascent science of exobiology which concerned itself with life on places other than Earth as a science without a subject".

He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. George Gaylord Simpson (June 16 1902 – October 6 1984) was an American paleontologist. He anticipated such concepts as punctuated equilibrium (in Tempo and mode) and dispelled the myth that the evolution of the horse was a linear process culminating in the modern Equus caballus.