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Yves Coppens

French anthropologist

1934   -  

country of citizenship: France
language of expression: French
educated at: University of Rennes, Sorbonne
occupation: anthropologist, paleontologist, archaeologist, prehistorian, professor, paleoanthropologist, screenwriter
award received: Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
position held: president
student of: Pierre-Roland Giot

Yves Coppens (born 9 August 1934) is a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of the fossil known as "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and Sorbonne, he has studied ancient hominids and has had multiple published works on this topic, and has also produced a film. On Saturday, 18 October 2014, Professor Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.
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Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind

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author: Yves Coppens, Hubert Reeves, Joël de Rosnay, Dominique Simonnet

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Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos ( 2015 )

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author: Yves Coppens, José Braga, Kira Westaway Fabrice Demeter, Laura Shackelford, Philippe Duringer, Anne-Marie Bacon, Jean-Luc Ponche, Xiujie Wu, Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy, Jian-Xin Zhao, Lani Barnes, Marc Boyon, Phonephanh Sichanthongtip, Frank Sénégas, Anne-Marie Karpoff, Elise Patole-Edoumba

A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa ( 2002 )

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author: Yves Coppens, David Pilbeam, Michel Brunet, Antoine Louchart, Fabrice Lihoreau, Gildas Merceron, Laurent Viriot, Olga Otero, Denis Geraads, Hervé Bocherens, Christoph Zollikofer, Christiane Denys, Patrick Vignaud, Mathieu Schuster Franck Guy, Hassane Taisso Mackaye, Andossa Likius, Djimdoumalbaye Ahounta, Alain Beauvilain, Cécile Blondel, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Louis De Bonis, Jean Dejax, Philippe Duringer, Véra Eisenmann, Gongdibé Fanone, Pierre Fronty, Thomas Lehmann, Adoum Mahamat, Guy Mouchelin, Pablo Pelaez Campomanes, Marcia Ponce De Leon, Jean-Claude Rage, Michel Sapanet, Jean Sudre, Pascal Tassy, Xavier Valentin, Antoine Zazzo

Anthracothere dental anatomy reveals a late Miocene Chado-Libyan bioprovince ( 2006 )

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author: Michel Brunet, Paul Tafforeau, Yves Coppens, Fabrice Lihoreau, Laurent Viriot, Patrick Vignaud Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Andossa Likius, Hassane Taisso Mackaye

The first australopithecine 2,500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad) ( 1995 )

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author: Michel Brunet, Alain Beauvilain, Yves Coppens, Emile Heintz, Aladji Hamit Elimi Ali Moutaye, David Pilbeam

Use and manufacture of tools to extract food by captive Gorilla gorilla gorilla: experimental approach. ( 2005 )

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author: Yves Coppens Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Christine Berge, Philippe Gorce

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