# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-shepard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:16:32.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-shepard"
name: "Paul Shepard"
slug: "paul-shepard"
description: "Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. was an American environmentalist and author best known for introducing the \"Pleistocene paradigm\" to deep ecology. His works established a normative framework in terms of evolutionary theory and developmental psychology. He offered a critique of sedentism/civilization and advocates modeling human lifestyles on those of nomadic prehistoric humans. He explored the connections between domestication, language, and cognition."
tagline: "American human ecologist (1925-1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1925-06-12"
deathDate: "1996-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.26
  momentum:             0.4640371229698376
  historical:           5.282902666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shepard"
    title: "Paul Shepard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shepard"
    title: "Paul Shepard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%84_%D8%B4%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "پل شپرد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Shepard"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Shepard"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Shepard"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7153570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump