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Yves Coppens (born 1934) is a French anthropologist. 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. 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". Richard Dawkins says in The Ancestor's Tale: "In his native France, Yves Coppens is widely cited as the discoverer of Lucy, even as the "father" of Lucy. In the English-speaking World, this important discovery is attributed to Donald Johanson."[2]
The asteroid 172850 Coppens is named in his honour.
References
- ^ Kortlandt, A. (1972) - New perspectives on ape and human evolution, Amsterdam, Stichting voor Psychobiologie.
- ^ Richard Dawkins (2004). The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Mariner Books, 104. ISBN 061861916X.
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