Everett C. Olson Quotes

United States, Geologist
November 6, 1910 – November, 27, 1993.

Everett Claire Olson was an American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist noted for his seminal research of origin and evolution of vertebrate animals. Olson identified a mass extinction that occurred 270 million years ago and which now carries his name - Olson's Extinction, also termed "Olson's Gap". Some of his other notable research also included genus of Slaugenhopia genus of Trimerorhachis, and genus of Waggoneria.

Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.

Everett C. Olson