Georg Baur
Georg Baur | |
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| Born | 1859 |
| Died | 1898 |
| Education | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Known for | Palaeontology Osteology |
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| Workplaces | Yale University Clark University University of Chicago |
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. 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.