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dawsoni

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Dawson +‎ -i. From English Dawson (surname) + Latin -i

  • (Eoanthropus dawsoni): Named after British amateur naturalist Charles Dawson, the discoverer of Piltdown Man, a hoax human ancestor from Piltdown, Sussex, England, UK.
  • (Quetzalcoatlus dawsoni): Named after American paleontologist Douglas Lawson, who discovered Quetzalcoatlus

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dawsoni

  1. (taxonomy) A species descriptor for species related to Dawson.

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