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Louis Dollo 
(1857-1931) 

Dollo was a Belgian Palaeontologist and in1878 he worked on Iguanadon He was the first to make a reconstruction of this animal.  He also proposed the Law of Irreversibility in Evolution.  This stated that once a complex structure is lost, it can never return in its original form. 

Dollo, L. 1888 Sur la signification de la créte occipitale de Pteranodon. Proc.-verb. Soc. belg. Géol. Paléont. Hydrol. 2, 79–80.

Dollo, L. 1889 Le vol chez les vertébrés. Rev. Quest. Scient. 26, 146–207 & 410–485.

Dollo, L. 1889 Les ptérosauriens. Rev. Quest. Scient. 25, 664–666.

Dollo, L. 1891 Les ptérosauriens. Proc.-verb. Soc. belg. Géol. Paléont. Hydrol. 5, 174–175.