Hugh Falconer
Scottish scientist (1808-1865) · Scientists · Died at 56
Hugh Falconer 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.
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He studied the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.
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Scientists
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Deceased
Dates
Lived 1808 to 1865 · aged 56
