Yves Coppens

Yves Coppens

Nacimiento : 1934-08-09, Vannes, Morbihan, France

Muerte : 2022-06-22

Historia

Yves Coppens (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022) was a French anthropologist. A graduate from the University of Rennes and Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis. He was Professor at the College de France, which is considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment. Richard Dawkins makes the following observation in The Ancestor's Tale: "Incidentally, I don't know what to make of the fact that in his native France, Yves Coppens is widely cited as the discoverer of Lucy, even as the 'father' of Lucy. In the English-speaking world, this important discovery is universally attributed to Donald Johanson". This confusion is because Coppens was the former director of the Hadar expedition. Donald Johanson, who led the 1974 expedition, was the one who found Lucy. The "Rift Valley theory", proposed and supported by the Dutch primatologist Adriaan Kortlandt, became better known when it was later espoused and renamed by Coppens as the "East Side Story". However, this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of Australopithecus bahrelghazali (Abel) and by the discovery of Sahelanthropus tchadensis by Michel Brunet's team in Toumaï in Chad (2,500 km to west Rift Valley). The main-belt asteroid 172850 Coppens was named in his honour. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 March 2008 (M.P.C. 62357). Coppens advised on the French film Une Femme ou Deux (English: One Woman or Two; 1985). Yves Coppens was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Medicine, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of Vatican, the French Outremer Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the Royal Academy of Sciences Hassan II of Morocco, the African Academy of Sciences, Arts, Cultures and Diasporas of Côte d'Ivoire, Honorary Member of the São Paulo Academy of Medicine, Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, correspondent of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, foreign associate of the Royal Society of South Africa. Coppens died in Paris on 22 June 2022 at the age of 87. Source: Article "Yves Coppens" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Perfil

Yves Coppens

Películas

Mon Chirac
Mon Chirac
Self
At the close of Jacques Chirac's life, politician Jean-Louis Debré has wished to make a film to celebrate his friend, to tell the story of their friendship and professional understanding, and to make an intimate portrait of the former President of France through the accounts of a few very close friends. Thanks to Jean-Louis Debré's presence, Claude Chirac and some of Jacques Chirac's closest friends, famous or unknown, agreed to talk to the camera, sometimes for the first time, to evoke their untold-before memories and tell about the moments that bonded the two men for a lifetime.
El amanecer del hombre
El amanecer del hombre
Writer
Hace doce mil años, el hombre dio de repente un giro decisivo. Emergió de la prehistoria y moldeó las piedras que darían lugar a las primeras civilizaciones. En unos pocos miles de años, el Homo Sapiens desarrolla la más extraordinaria de sus herramientas: su cerebro. La mutación más vertiginosa está en marcha. El Homo Sapiens se estableció e inventó la agricultura, la ganadería, el comercio, la rueda, las aleaciones metálicas, las religiones, la escritura, la arquitectura... Construyeron ciudades y crearon una sociedad compleja, organizada y jerarquizada. Se comunicaba a grandes distancias gracias a la escritura, intercambiando sus bienes y conocimientos a través de los continentes. Esta es la historia de la aventura humana y de los grandes momentos que nos llevaron a través de los siglos a nuestro nacimiento...
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Writer
Hace doscientos cincuenta mil años apareció en la Tierra el primer representante directo de nuestra especie: el Homo Sapiens... Desde 400.000 a.C. hasta 20.000 a.C., seguimos el destino del Homo Erectus, el Neanderthal y el Sapiens. Descubriremos la aparición del lenguaje, el arte, los cultos, la agricultura y la ganadería...
La odisea de la especie
La odisea de la especie
Writer
Serie documental de ficción que nos introduce en el mundo de nuestros ancestros para ilustrar los épicos comienzos de la vida del hombre en los momentos cruciales que marcaron el desarrollo de la historia de la humanidad. Se trata de una producción en la que se combinan las técnicas más sofisticadas de animación por ordenador con la participación de actores. Gracias a las recientes investigaciones científicas se pudieron reconstruir con precisión la apariencia, el comportamiento y el ambiente de nuestros antepasados.
The Monkey Folk
The Monkey Folk
Writer
This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Because of its length and extensive coverage of its subject, it is of particular interest to those who are already keenly interested in its subject matter.
Along the Coast
Along the Coast
Assistant Director Trainee
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.