History is a passion since my childhood. I was fortunate to study university, but I could never approach the archeology and paleontology closely. It was not in my programs and I did not choose this specialization. So.
However I like to read books related. With that
Yves Coppens, " This past squared, making the prehistoric " I'm thrilled because I was over the pages with one of the leading experts.
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Author: (Source Wikipedia)
Yves Coppens, Vannes born August 9, 1934, is a paleontologist French paleoanthropologist and professor emeritus at College de France. In France, his name is attached to the discovery in 1974 of fossil nicknamed Lucy, as he was with American Donald Johanson and Maurice Taieb the French one of three co-directors of the team that has developed day.
son of physicist René Coppens, fascinated by archeology and prehistory since childhood, he began very early to participate in the work of excavation and exploration in Britain. He earned a bachelor's degree in experimental sciences in high school Jules Simon Vannes and then a bachelor of science in the Faculty of Natural Science from the University of Rennes. It prepares the doctoral degree graduate in starting a thesis on the Proboscidea in the laboratory of Professor Jean Piveteau, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.
In 1956, he became a researcher of the National Centre for Scientific Research when he was 22 years. He heads toward the study of Quaternary and Tertiary periods. From 1960, he began climbing expeditions in Chad, Ethiopia and Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, Indonesia and the Philippines.
In 1965, he discovered a hominid skull in Yaho (Angamma, Chad) he then called Tchadanthropus uxoris tribute to the country where it was found and whereas it is an individual female. In an age estimated at one million years, this fossil is now close to Homo erectus.
He became a lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in 1969 and obtained the sub-department of the Museum of Man.
November 30, 1974 in Hadar, a relatively complete fossil of Australopithecus afarensis is discovered as part of the International Afar Research Expedition, a project involving thirty researchers Ethiopian, American and French co-directed by Donald Johanson (Paleoanthropology), Maurice Taieb (geology) and Yves Coppens (paleontology). The first fragment of the fossil was discovered by Tom Gray, a student of Donald Johanson. The fossil is nicknamed "Lucy" in reference to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the Beatles song played by the team. Yves Coppens
was named director and professor at the National Museum of Natural History in 1980, and study director at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He was elected to the chair of paleontology and prehistory at the College de France in 1983, chair he held until 2005, when He became professor emeritus.
In 1994, he chaired a committee of the Academy of Sciences on a case involving the brothers Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff, astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan, accusing them of plagiarism in their book God and Science published in 1991.
In 2006 he was appointed to the High Council for Science and Technology (Official Gazette of September 24, 2006).
In January 2010 he was appointed chairman of the Scientific Council of the conservation of the Lascaux cave.
Today, Yves Coppens is present in many national and international disciplines manager's jurisdiction. He has conducted Also a laboratory associated with CNRS, the Centre for Anthropological Research - Museum of Man, and two collections of works from the CNRS, the Journal of Paleoanthropology and Works of East African paleoanthropology. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences, Academy of Medicine, Academy of Sciences of Outremer and the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts Belgium, corresponding to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Foreign associate of the Royal Society of South Africa and Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universities of Bologna, Liege, Mons and Chicago.
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The plot: What
the chimpanzee genome sheds light there on the prehistory of man? How do we know that Neanderthal man loved the meat and he preferred, when he had the choice, steak of reindeer steak buffalo? When can we date the first paléobabyboom? What plant Neolithic men were they domesticated first? Prehistorians how do they know that the drawings of mammoths at Rouffignac are not false? Can you tell who owns the hand that is on the wall of the cave Vilhonneur? With its usual verve and precision, Yves Coppens answered all the questions we ask ourselves about our origins, our geographic expansion or the development of our tooling and progressive refinement of our thinking.
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What I Think
This book is a collection of chronic Yves Coppens on France Info. This is not the first time he publishes this type of work and each time it is with pleasure that I immersed myself.
The texts are grouped thematically. The whole work is therefore the most logical in the world even if reviews are not transcribed in their order of distribution (This was not absolutely annoying to listeners, but that would be more for the readers). The information they contain are all the more clear. The more user-friendly even for novices.
Yves Coppens is one of the researchers, these enthusiasts who know how to share their knowledge. Everything seems simple, clear with them. One learns with a certain pleasure while being entertained. It combines the useful (knowledge) with pleasure.
Dive into this book will help you understand your peers, your story through the ages, but especially your own journey.
It is well known that just To understand this, a good command of his past is often necessary ...
My final score: 17/20.
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