Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Da farko, dangantakar da ke tsakanin Cope da Marsh ta kasance abokantaka. Sun hadu a Berlin a 1864 kuma sun shafe kwanaki da yawa tare. Har sun ba wa jinsuna sunayen juna. Da shigewar lokaci, dangantakarsu ta yi tsami, a wani ɓangare saboda halayensu masu ƙarfi. Cope an san shi da kasancewa mai rikici kuma yana da saurin fushi; Marsh ya kasance mai jinkiri, ya fi tsari, kuma ya shiga ciki. Duka biyun masu jayayya ne kuma ba sa amincewa da juna. Bambance-bambancen su kuma sun faɗaɗa cikin fannin kimiyya, kamar yadda Cope ya kasance mai goyon bayan Neo-Lamarckism yayin da Marsh ya goyi bayan ka'idar Charles Darwin game da juyin halitta ta hanyar zabin halitta. Ko a lokacin da suke farin ciki, su biyun suna raina juna. Kamar yadda wani mai lura ya ce, "Mai yiwuwa Edward mai martaba ya ɗauki Marsh ba kamar mutum ba ne. Masanin Othniel mai yiwuwa ya ɗauki Cope ba ƙwararre ba ne. "Cope da Marsh sun fito ne daga wurare daban-daban. An haifi Cope ne a cikin dangi mai arziki da tasiri na Quaker da ke zaune a Philadelphia. Ko da yake mahaifinsa yana son dansa ya yi aiki a matsayin manomi, Cope ya bambanta kansa a matsayin mai ilimin halitta. A shekara ta 1864, wanda ya riga ya zama memba na Kwalejin Kimiyya na Halitta, Cope ya zama farfesa na ilimin dabbobi a Kwalejin Haverford kuma ya shiga Ferdinand Hayden a kan tafiyarsa zuwa yamma. Akasin haka, Marsh zai yi girma cikin talauci, ɗan dangi mai gwagwarmaya a Lockport, New York, idan ba don taimakon kawunsa ba, mai ba da agaji George Peabody. Marsh ya shawo kan kawunsa ya gina Gidan Tarihi na Tarihi na Peabody, yana sanya Marsh a matsayin shugaban gidan kayan gargajiya. Haɗe da gadon da ya karɓa daga Peabody lokacin mutuwarsa a 1869, Marsh yana da wadataccen kuɗi (duk da cewa, a wani ɓangare saboda tsananin ra'ayoyin Peabody game da aure, Marsh zai kasance ɗan saurayi na rayuwa).  Tambaya: Ta yaya Marsh ya kwatanta da Cope?
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