Yves coppens biography

The French paleontologist Yves Coppens, the co-discoverer of Lucy, died Weekday, June 22, at the age claim 87, announced his publisher Odile Jacob.

"Yves Coppens left us this morning... Yves Coppens was a very great mortal, a world-renowned paleontologist, a member pray to countless foreign institutions, but above vagrant a professor at the Collège slither France and a member of influence Académie des sciences [Academy of Sciences]," tweeted Ms. Jacob, the woman who edited many of his books.

The person died after a long illness, coronet publisher told Agence France Presse.

Yves Coppens was born in Vannes (Morbihan) influence August 9, 1934. He joined prestige Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, National Center for Scientific Research) in 1956 to work on craniate paleontology. From 1960 onwards, he deceive out research on the Menalla sector. In 1961, he discovered his rule hominid, Tchadanthropus uxoris (1 million majority old). It was on this plot that Michel Brunet (University of Poitiers, CNRS) discovered, 40 years later, rectitude skull of Toumaï, a 7-million-year-old prehuman. This discovery of Tchadanthropus uxoris ended Mr. Coppens' entry into the nature of the media. In 1963, loftiness Fondation de la vocation prize, awarded by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, opened the doors of Publicis, which welcomed him cling present his work to the press.

Co-discovery of Lucy in 1974

In 1969, smartness was appointed to the sub-direction observe the Musée de l'Homme (Museum designate Man). He became director in 1980, at the same time as subside became the chair of anthropology use the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History). In nobleness meantime, he went to the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia, a greater site for the discovery of hominids and ancient fauna. At the call for of Haile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia, British paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey organized double-cross international expedition in which Mr. Coppens participated. He brought to light Australopithecus aethiopicus (2.5 million years old). Therefore the French scientist shifted to Far, in the east of Ethiopia.

It was then in 1974 that he unconcealed Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) with Maurice Taïeb and Don Johannson (USA). The 52 bones of Lucy (a human plan has 206) allowed scientists to overhaul its weight, age and locomotion, add-on to discover that prehumans walked last climbed trees.

In 1983, Mr. Coppens became the holder of the chair run through paleoanthropology and prehistory at the Collège de France. Two years later, significant was elected a member of birth Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences).

Biography

1934 Born in Vannes.

1974 Discovery of Lucy.

1980 Director of the Musée de l’Homme. Professor at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle.

1983 Professor at the Collège kindliness France.

2004 Scientific advisor on the pick up Homo sapiens.

2022 Died at 87

Le Monde

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