ANTHROPOLOGIST

Eugenie Scott

1945 - Today

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Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. She coined the term "Gish gallop" to describe a fallacious rhetorical technique of overwhelming an interlocutor with as many individually weak arguments as possible, in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument. From 1986 to 2014, Scott served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit science education organization supporting teaching of evolutionary science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugenie Scott has received more than 179,943 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Eugenie Scott is the 88th most popular anthropologist (down from 82nd in 2019), the 10,617th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,887th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Anthropologist.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Eugenie Scott ranks 88 out of 93. Before her are Marilyn Strathern, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Hugh Falconer, W. H. R. Rivers, Grete Mostny, and Napoleon Chagnon. After her are Edwin H. Colbert, Chris Stringer, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, John Tooby, and Alice Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Eugenie Scott ranks 594. Before her are Christy Moore, Cipriano Chemello, István Juhász, Randy Matson, Georg Volkert, and Subhash Ghai. After her are Brewster H. Shaw, Shirley Walker, Baudilio Jáuregui, Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Max Hastings, and Cristian Gațu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugenie Scott ranks 10,617 out of 20,380. Before her are June Christy (1925), Kathy Ellis (1946), Naomi Parker Fraley (1921), Bruce C. Murray (1931), Herman Chernoff (1923), and Gillian Flynn (1971). After her are Samuel S. Hinds (1875), Richard Blumenthal (1946), T Bone Burnett (1948), Arthur Fry (1931), Al Parker (1952), and Shirley Clarke (1919).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Eugenie Scott ranks 24. Before her are Madison Grant (1865), Michael Harner (1929), James C. Scott (1936), Julian Steward (1902), Carleton S. Coon (1904), and Napoleon Chagnon (1938). After her are Edwin H. Colbert (1905), and John Tooby (1952).

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