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  2. Yves Coppens - Wikipedia

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    He was Professor at the College de France, which is considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment. [3] [4]Richard Dawkins makes the following observation in The Ancestor's Tale: "Incidentally, I don't know what to make of the fact that in his native France, Yves Coppens is widely cited as the discoverer of Lucy, even as the 'father' of Lucy.

  3. Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia

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    Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...

  4. Last universal common ancestor - Wikipedia

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    The theory of a universal common ancestry of life is widely accepted. In 2010, based on "the vast array of molecular sequences now available from all domains of life," [ 69 ] D. L. Theobald published a " formal test " of universal common ancestry (UCA).

  5. Owen Lovejoy (anthropologist) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, he worked with PBS on their 1997 NOVA special on human evolution. [7] Based on the groundbreaking "Ardi" research, Lovejoy worked with the Discovery Channel on two specials related to his team's nearly two decades of research: Discovering Ardi (2009), aired after the special issue of Science was published, and Understanding Ardi ...

  6. Jerry Coyne - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949) [4] [5] is an American biologist and skeptic known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design.A professor emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, he has published numerous papers on the theory of evolution.

  7. Evolutionary linguistics - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, structuralism was however fended off by the advocates of behavioural psychology; a linguistics framework nicknamed as 'American structuralism'.It was eventually replaced by the approach of Noam Chomsky who published a modification of Louis Hjelmslev's formal structuralist theory, claiming that syntactic structures are innate.

  8. Book excerpt: "I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of ... - AOL

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    "I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition" by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats "Romeo and Juliet" actress Olivia Hussey dies at 73 Face ...

  9. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    This theory states that the language a person speaks will affect the way that this person thinks. [1] The theory varies between two main proposals: that language structure determines how individuals perceive the world and that language structure influences the world view of speakers of a given language but does not determine it. [2]