Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), American paleontologist, zoologist, and herpetologist. Cope is perhaps best remembered for a personal feud with paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh which led to a period of intense fossil-finding competition now known as the Bone Wars.


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