Michel Brunet
French paleontologist and paleoanthropologist (1940-) · France · On the map · Academics
Michel Brunet is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France between 2008 and 2011. In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumaï.
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These remains may predate the earliest previously known hominid remains, Lucy, by over three million years; however, this conclusion is the subject of a significant controversy.
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France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1940 · age 86
