Edward Drinker Cope was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19. Though his father tried to raise Cope as a gentleman farmer, he eventually acquiesced to his son's scientific aspirations.
- Occupation
- geologist, paleontologist, zoologist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 28, 1840
- Died
- April 12, 1897
