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Michel Brunet

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French paleontologist and paleoanthropologist (1940-)

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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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2003Dan David Prize
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Officer of the National Order of Merit
Officer of the French Order of Academic Palms
Officer of the National Order of Chad

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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. 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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Born 1940 · age 86
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