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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Eugenie Scott

1945 - Today

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Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist, a former university professor and educator 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. Since 2013, Scott has been listed on their advisory council.Scott holds a Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugenie Scott has received more than 167,807 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Eugenie Scott is the 84th most popular anthropologist (down from 68th in 2019), the 12,917th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,128th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Anthropologist.

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  • 170k

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  • 36.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Eugenie Scott ranks 84 out of 69Before her are Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Grete Mostny, Hugh Falconer, Napoleon Chagnon, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, and Edwin H. Colbert. After her are Alice Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Eugenie Scott ranks 568Before her are George Eaton, Ronald J. Grabe, Paul Bérenger, Tom Ridge, Tommy Smith, and Dusa McDuff. After her are Bjarni Tryggvason, Brian McGuire, Anne Waldman, Damien Magee, Stephen Schneider, and Julie Heldman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugenie Scott ranks 12,917 out of 18,182Before her are Blanchard Ryan (1967), Kevin Eastman (1962), Michelle Lujan Grisham (1959), Steven Wright (1955), Gabby Giffords (1970), and Michael L. Gernhardt (1956). After her are Kurt Warner (1971), Tommy Thompson (1941), Wallace Roney (1960), Randy Harrison (1977), Vicki Draves (1924), and Olympia Snowe (1947).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Eugenie Scott ranks 24Before her are Madison Grant (1865), Helen Fisher (1945), Gayle Rubin (1949), Carleton S. Coon (1904), Napoleon Chagnon (1938), and Edwin H. Colbert (1905).