Hugh Falconer

1808 - 1865

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Country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: University of Edinburgh, University of Aberdeen

Occupation: botanist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, geologist

Award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Wollaston Medal

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Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, Burma, and most of the Mediterranean islands and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He studied the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape. Source: Wikipedia (en)