13 Facts About Louis Dollo

Louis Dollo posited that evolution is not reversible, known as Dollo's law.

Together with the Austrian Othenio Abel, Dollo established the principles of paleobiology.

Louis Dollo was born in Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a scion of an old Breton family.

Louis Dollo studied at the Ecole centrale de Lille, with geologist Jules Gosselet and zoologist Alfred Giard, both of whom influenced the young Dollo.

Louis Dollo devoted himself to their study as a scientific passion, initially concurrently with his engineering career.

Louis Dollo was given membership in the Societe des sciences de Lille and the Geological Society of London.

From 1882 to 1885, while he was head of the vertebrate fossil section of the Royal Institute, Louis Dollo worked on reconstructing the skeletons of the iguanodons, as it was necessary to display them on their hind legs.

The first one was assembled in the interior of an unused church that Louis Dollo was using as a workshop.

Louis Dollo collaborated with his former professor Alfred Giard and the Universite Lille Nord de France.

Louis Dollo continued his work with fossils, in addition to studies of dinosaurs and their ecology.

Louis Dollo was among the first to see fossil animals as part of an ecosystem.

Louis Dollo taught paleontology at the Free University of Brussels, beginning in 1909, and in 1912 received the Murchison Medal.

Recently, the stochastic Louis Dollo model is being used to analyze matrix of cognates statistically.