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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 43,847 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2019). Hugh Falconer is the 80th most popular anthropologist (down from 58th in 2019), the 4,677th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,444th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Hugh Falconer ranks 80 out of 69Before him are Dmitry Anuchin, Françoise Héritier, Vladimir Bogoraz, Carleton S. Coon, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, and Grete Mostny. After him are Napoleon Chagnon, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Edwin H. Colbert, Eugenie Scott, and Alice Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Hugh Falconer ranks 61Before him are Antonio Arenas, José Rufino Echenique, Hamilton Fish, Teréz Karacs, Wendela Hebbe, and Juan Crisóstomo Torrico. After him are John Hutton Balfour and Hugh McCulloch. Among people deceased in 1865, Hugh Falconer ranks 70Before him are Léon Jean Marie Dufour, William Henry Smyth, Edward Everett, Andrei Stackenschneider, José María Pérez de Urdininea, and A. P. Hill. After him are William J. Duane and Thomas Corwin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 4,677 out of 7,765Before him are Bryan Sykes (1947), Henry Tate (1819), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Pat Fry (1964), and Amina J. Mohammed (1961). After him are Kevin Doyle (1960), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Clive Bunker (1946), Roma Ryan (1950), Mark Jones (1933), and David Mackenzie (1966).

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Hugh Falconer ranks 11Before him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Victor Turner (1920), Mary Leakey (1913), Edmund Leach (1910), and Ashley Montagu (1905). After him are Alice Roberts (1973).