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Palaeontology

Reconstructing whole animals from the parts that fossilise.

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Donald Johanson

One glance at a bone changed human evolution—by forcing palaeontology to redraw the family tree around a single, incomplete skeleton.
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10:41

Edward Drinker Cope

Cope didn’t found American palaeontology—he flooded it with names, many of which still stand only because no one has cleared the backlog.
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Georges Cuvier

Cuvier didn’t just name extinct beasts — he proved life could vanish, and made Earth’s history a story of catastrophe, not continuity.