Georg Baur
German paleontologist and herpetologist (1859-1898) · Died at 39
Georg Baur (1859-1898) was a German vertebrate paleontologist and Neo-Lamarckian who studied reptiles of the Galapagos Islands, particularly the Galápagos tortoises, in the 1890s.
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He is perhaps best known for his subsidence theory of the origin of the Galapagos Islands, where he postulated the islands were the remains of a former landmass, connected to South America via Cocos Island.
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Lived 1859 to 1898 · aged 39