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Everett C. Olson
Pages 240-263

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From page 241... ... And we are a single species; one of probably ten million species that exists on the earth today, and of countless millions that have existed in the past. And we're a small segment in time; a transition from when we weren't to when we won't be, which . Read the entire page →
From page 242... ... South Africa introclucec! him to taphonomy, which he popularized in Western paleontology. Read the entire page →
From page 243... ... By the time he left high school, he had played violin in the school orchestra and string quartet, a ciance band, en c! the pit orchestra of a local minstrel show. Read the entire page →
From page 244... ... the masters program in geology at the University of Chicago in 1932 as the Great Depression deepened and income from his father's dental practice plummetecI. He completer! Read the entire page →
From page 245... ... He slurred back, "Thash good." PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Since IS92 three vertebrate paleontologists at the University of Chicago hac! struggler! Read the entire page →
From page 246... ... popular graduate student who had moved into the faculty."7 Capitalizing on this popularity, superb political skills, and a predilection for interclisciplinary research, Ole succeeclec! where three previous vertebrate paleontologists had only limited success. Read the entire page →
From page 247... ... early Permian deposits of north central Texas en c! adjacent Oklahoma, en c! Read the entire page →
From page 248... ... However, the time gap between tetrapocis of the Clearfork formation en c! those of South Africa remained. Read the entire page →
From page 249... ... In addition to documenting the diversification of late Permian tetrapods, Olson's series "Fauna of the Vale and Choza" led to his conceptual breakthrough, the "chronofauna," a group of animals with morphological and ecological continuity over an appreciable period of geological time (1952~. Although members of a chronofauna might go extinct or be added from outside the system, its ecological structure persisted until a major change in the physical environment caused extinction of several species. Read the entire page →
From page 250... ... Ole to the subject.2 it Confronted by unexceptional fossil assemblages but possessing an unconventional array of methods, Ole developed a novel perspective on the evolution of early Permian tetrapocis. Read the entire page →
From page 251... ... numerous graduate students to work with him. An interesting implication of chronofaunas is that the stable ecological structures they represent seem to clamant! Read the entire page →
From page 252... ... little immediate impact. However, recent improvement in computing capabilities has stimulates! Read the entire page →
From page 253... ... noon to fine! Ole reacting Science, Ecology, Evolution, or one of several paleontology journals and drinking stale coffee, intently chomping on carrots and celery, or methodically peeling an orange grown Read the entire page →
From page 254... ... these problems represented a few specific personality conflicts. Ole was full of good practical advice to graduate students about fielc! Read the entire page →
From page 255... ... No cloubt, Ole's sensitivity to the local pace of life en c! ways of cloing things served him equally well in university politics, dealings with Texas cowboys, en c! Read the entire page →
From page 256... ... he was the driving force to create the graduate paleozoology program clescribec! above. Read the entire page →
From page 257... ... THANK THE LATE Lila Olson and Claire McAleer, Ole s older daughter, for their years of friendship and recollections of their lives with Ole. Many people familiar with Ole's professional activities contributed information for this biography, including particularly his former Read the entire page →
From page 258... ... 258 B I O G RA P H I C A L EMOIRS graduate students T Read the entire page →
From page 260... ... Manual for Instruction in Military Mapping and Aerial Photography. New York: Harper Brothers. Read the entire page →
From page 261... ... 1:20515. 1962 Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, U Read the entire page →
From page 262... ... 262 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS 1981 The problem of missing links: today and yesterday. Quart. Read the entire page →

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... And we are a single species; one of probably ten million species that exists on the earth today, and of countless millions that have existed in the past. And we're a small segment in time; a transition from when we weren't to when we won't be, which .

Everett C. Olson Pages 240-263

Everett C. Olson
Pages 240-263