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What scientific journal is named after Edward Drinker Cope?
Early Dinosaur History in the United States
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The scientific journal Copeia, devoted to fish and snakes, is named in honor of Edward D. Cope (1840–1897). This is because Cope—in spite of being so involved in the “Bone Wars” of the late 1800s—was considered one of the top authorities on living and extinct animals of his day.