ANTHROPOLOGIST

Hugh Falconer

1808 - 1865

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Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, Burma, and most of the Mediterranean islands and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Falconer has received more than 47,209 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hugh Falconer is the 84th most popular anthropologist (down from 78th in 2019), the 4,796th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,667th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Anthropologist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Hugh Falconer ranks 84 out of 93. Before him are Marcellin Boule, Ashley Montagu, Carleton S. Coon, Françoise Héritier, Marilyn Strathern, and Adolf Bernhard Meyer. After him are W. H. R. Rivers, Grete Mostny, Napoleon Chagnon, Eugenie Scott, Edwin H. Colbert, and Chris Stringer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Hugh Falconer ranks 68. Before him are José María Urvina, José María Linares, Agustín Morales, Hamilton Fish, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, and Wendela Hebbe. After him are Teréz Karacs, John Hutton Balfour, Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Caroline Norton, John Scott Russell, and Hugh McCulloch. Among people deceased in 1865, Hugh Falconer ranks 76. Before him are Marie-Anne Libert, José María Pérez de Urdininea, William Henry Smyth, A. P. Hill, Andrei Stackenschneider, and Henry Wirz. After him are William J. Duane, Charles Lock Eastlake, and Thomas Corwin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 4,796 out of 8,785. Before him are Chris Smalling (1989), Shirley Brasher (1934), Richard Brake (1964), Tommy Steele (1936), Don Finlay (1909), and Caroline Cossey (1954). After him are Lesley Nicol (1953), Hugh Blair (1718), George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800), Steve Rothery (1959), Roland Penrose (1900), and Alister Hardy (1896).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 13. Before him are Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Marilyn Strathern (1941). After him are W. H. R. Rivers (1864), Chris Stringer (1947), and Alice Roberts (1973).

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