'''Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz''' (1807—1873) was a Swiss geologist and zoologist who immigrated to the United States. He was the first to propose in a formal scientific paper the existence of a massive glacier in the recent past in Switzerland, to render it like Greenland.<ref>[http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ncps:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABQ7578-0145-13))::|The]</ref>
A prominent zoologist, Agassiz was an outspoken critic of Darwin's [[Theory of Evolution]]. However, he promoted his own evolutionary system, which called for [[spontaneous creation]] and parallel evolution of species.
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