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The 13 pages that link to Louis Agassiz, each with the reason it gives.

• GlacierRelated: His glacial theory helped establish ice as an agent of large-scale landscape change.

• Alexander von HumboldtRelated: Humboldt supported Agassiz’s scientific career and helped him gain access to European networks.

• Fish taxonomyRelated: His fish studies helped establish comparative ichthyology as a research field.

• John TyndallRelated: Tyndall became an influential advocate of glaciation and debated its geological implications.

• GlaciologyRelated: His advocacy helped establish glaciation as an explanation for European landforms.

• Glacial geomorphologyRelated: His glacial theory helped establish ice as an agent capable of reshaping continents.

• American Association for the Advancement of ScienceRelated: His participation reflects the prominent naturalists who helped build AAAS in its early years.

• James Dwight DanaRelated: Agassiz and Dana were prominent, sometimes sharply opposed, interpreters of natural history.

• PolygenismRelated: His standing in natural history helped lend polygenism scientific authority.

• MesosaurusRelated: Agassiz described Mesosaurus in the nineteenth century from Brazilian fossils.

• CretoxyrhinaRelated: Agassiz established the genus name Cretoxyrhina in the nineteenth century.

• Philip Henry GosseRelated: Agassiz shared Gosse’s resistance to Darwinian evolution, though their arguments differed.

• OsteolepisRelated: Agassiz established the genus Osteolepis in his work on fossil fish remains.