Louis Agassiz

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Louis Agassiz was a Swiss anatomist, geologist, paleontologist and ceaseless critic of Darwinian evolution throughout his life. He studied under Cuvier in Paris, and later taught at Harvard. In 1861, the very year Archaeopteryx was discovered, Agassiz cited the reptile/bird gap as one which evolutionary theory could never surmount, a claim which Thomas Huxley effectively put to rest. Agassiz also described the first fossils attributable to ostracoderms, which would later be formally described as a taxon by E. D. Cope, and described the first fossils of coelacanths (and named them so).

Agassiz was the first to recognize the Ice Ages. He was one of the earliest to study and recognize the extent of glacier advance in both Europe and North America. Glacial Lake Agassiz, the Pleistocene precursor to Lake Winnipeg, was named to honor his work in glaciology in North America.