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1858–1947 United States

William Berryman Scott (February 12, 1858 – March 29, 1947) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University. He was elected in 1886 a Member of the American Philosophical Society, in 1906 a Member of the U.S.

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Comparative anatomy suffers from the drawback that it cannot with certainty distinguish between resemblances due to genetic affinity, on the other hand, and those which are the results of convergence or parallelism, on the other, and it possesses no trustworthy criterion, by which it can test the taxonomic significance of structural characters.

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