1840–1897 American vertebrate palaeontologist and noted neo-Lamarckian who described over one thousand new vertebrate specimens.
Keywords: vertebrate palaeontology; nineteenth-century American science; neo-Lamarckian; dinosaurs; biographies
Cope, Edward Drinker
Timothy W Kneeland, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002387
| Further Reading | |
| Cope ED (1868) On the origin of genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20: 242–300. | |
| book Cope ED (1875) "The Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Formations of the West". Report US Geological Survey of the Territories II. Hayden, Arizona. | |
| book Cope ED (1884) "The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West, Book I". Report US Geological Survey of the Territories III. Hayden, Arizona. | |
| book Cope ED (1896) The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution. Chicago: Open Court Publication. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1978) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. XV. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Lanham U (1973) The Bone Hunters. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| book Osborn HF (1931) Cope, Master Naturalist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. | |
| Rainger R (1992) The rise and decline of science: Vertebrate palaeontology at Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, 1820–1900. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 136: 1–32. | |
| book Wallace DR (1999) The Bonehunter's Revenge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. | |
