His father’s name was Joseph Alexander Simpson, and he worked as an attorney, and his mother’s name was Helen Kinney. George Gaylord Simpson was in a family of five, including himself. He had two siblings, and of course his mother and father. He was the youngest of three children. He was the youngest of two girls. He grew up in the state of Colorado, in the city of Denver, he loved to go camping and mountain climbing with his father. He graduated from high school in 1918, then he applied for the University of Colorado, Boulder. He then transferred to the college Yale in Rhode Island, for his final degree year in 1922, keeping his degree in 1923. During his studies he earned a doctorate in geology from Yale University in the year of 1926, researching North American mammals. In 1927, Simpson took a position at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and he had the same job, there for almost three decades. During his life, he used to work as an officer during World War two from 1942 to 1944, he stationed during that time in North Africa. When the war had finished, he moved on to his next journey, he became a professor of zoology at Columbia University for four years. After that he worked in the American Museum of History, after working at the museum he went to teach at the University of Harvard, then when he finished teaching at Harvard he went to teach at the University of Arizona, for the rest of his…