Yves Coppens
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Yves Coppens (born 1934 in Vannes, Morbihan) is a French anthropologist. He graduated from the University of Rennes. He has studied ancient hominids and has had multiple published works on this topic, and has also produced a film.
Coppens is one of the co-discoverers of Lucy. Richard Dawkins says in The Ancestor's Tale: "In his native France, Yves Coppens is widely cited as the co-discoverer of Lucy along with Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb.The "Rift Valley theory", proposed and supported by the Dutch primatologist Adriaan Kortlandt,[1] became better known when it was later espoused and renamed by Coppens as the "East Side Story". However this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery by Michel Brunet' s team of Australopithecus bahrelghazali (Abel) and Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumaï) in Chad (2 500 km to west rift walley [2][3] The asteroid 172850 Coppens is named in his honour.
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- ^ Kortlandt, A. (1972) - New perspectives on ape and human evolution, Amsterdam, Stichting voor Psychobiologie.
- ^ 2. Brunet, M. (1997) - « Origine des hominidés : East Side Story... West Side Story... », Géobios, M.S. n ° 20, 79-83
- ^ 3.Brunet, M., Guy, F., Pilbeam, D., Mackaye, H. T., Likius, A. et al. (2002) - « A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa », Nature, vol. 418, 11 juillet 2002, pp. 145-151.
