Edward Drinker Cope

American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840–1897).

Born July 28th, 1840 in Philadelphia.

Died April 12th, 1897 at 56 years old in Philadelphia.

Occupations
anatomist, botanical collector, botanist, explorer, geologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, naturalist, paleontologist, university teacher, zoologist

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks