About R. J. G. Savage
Lived 1927 – 1998 (aged 70). R. J. G. Savage was a British paleontologist.
Robert Joseph Gay Savage (2 July 1927 – 9 May 1998) was a British palaeontologist known as Britain's leading expert on fossil mammals. and earning a PhD in 1953 with a dissertation on the fossil otter Potamotherium. Savage edited two volumes of the influential Vertebrates of Africa series with Louis Leakey, and was a colleague of Richard and Meave Leakey. His 1986 non-specialist book Mammal Evolution: An Illustrated Guide became a leading work in its field, and was translated into Spanish and Japanese.
Savage was known to colleagues as a good-natured raconteur, and "something of a raffish gentleman explorer".
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Who was R. J. G. Savage?
British palaeontologist (1927-1998)
When was R. J. G. Savage born?
R. J. G. Savage was born on 2 July 1927 in Belfast.
When did R. J. G. Savage die?
R. J. G. Savage died on 9 May 1998 in Bristol.
What was R. J. G. Savage's occupation?
R. J. G. Savage was a paleontologist.
What nationality was R. J. G. Savage?
R. J. G. Savage was British.
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