Hugh Falconer

Geologist, Academic

1808 – 1865

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Who was Hugh Falconer?

Hugh Falconer MD FRS was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He was the first to discover the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.

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Born
Feb 29, 1808
Forres
Ethnicity
  • Scottish people
Nationality
  • Scotland
Profession
Education
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Aberdeen
Lived in
  • Scotland
Died
Jul 31, 1865
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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