ANTHROPOLOGIST

Hugh Falconer

1808 - 1865

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Falconer is the 76th most popular anthropologist (up from 84th in 2019), the 4,032nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,797th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Hugh Falconer ranks 76 out of 93. Before him are Helen Fisher, Michael Harner, Madison Grant, Philippe Descola, Julian Steward, and Melville J. Herskovits. After him are Yves Coppens, Vladimir Bogoraz, George Murdock, Jean Malaurie, Eric Wolf, and Françoise Héritier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Hugh Falconer ranks 64. Before him are Franz Theodor Kugler, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Wendela Hebbe, Michael William Balfe, and José Rufino Echenique. After him are Frederik Kaiser, Hamilton Fish, Philipp Christoph Zeller, José María Urvina, Agustín Morales, and José María Linares. Among people deceased in 1865, Hugh Falconer ranks 70. Before him are Edward Everett, Philippe Buchez, Samuel Cunard, Lewis Powell, Nicholas Wiseman, and Manuel Isidoro Belzu. After him are William Henry Smyth, José María Pérez de Urdininea, Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, A. P. Hill, Andrei Stackenschneider, and Miklós Jósika.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 4,033 out of 8,785. Before him are James Donald (1917), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Shakespeare (1530), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Tom Walkinshaw (1946), and Harry Mallin (1892). After him are Joe Allen (1990), Billie Whitelaw (1932), Annabelle Wallis (1984), David Morrissey (1964), Shirley Eaton (1937), and John Farnham (1949).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 12. Before him are E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Jack Goody (1919). After him are Marilyn Strathern (1941), W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Chris Stringer (1947), and Alice Roberts (1973).

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