Georg Baur

Georg Baur
Born1859[1]
Died1898[1]
EducationUniversity of Munich
Known forPalaeontology
Osteology
Scientific career
InstitutionsYale 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.

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