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((Short description|French anthropologist (1934–2022)))
((more citations needed|date=June 2022))
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((Infobox scientist
| name              = Yves Coppens
<!--|honorific-suffix  = [[Doctor of Science|DSc]]-->
| image             = Yves Coppens detail.jpg
| caption           = Coppens in 2008
| birth_date        = ((Birth date|1934|08|09|df=y))
| birth_place       = [[Vannes]], France
| death_date        = ((death date and age|2022|6|22|1934|8|9|df=y))
| death_place       = Paris, France
| alma_mater        = [[University of Rennes]]<br>[[University of Paris]]
| known_for         = Co-discovery of "[[Lucy (Australopithecus)|Lucy]]"<ref name=":Guardian" />
<!--|occupation     = [[anthropologist]]-->
<!--|organization   = Fellow of the [[College de France]]-->
| awards            = Grand Officer of the [[National Order of the Legion of Honour]]<br>
Grand Cross of the [[Ordre national du Mérite (France)|National Order of Merit of France]]<br>
Commander of the [[Order of Arts and Letters]] of France<br>
Commander of the [[Order of Academic Palms]] of France<br>
Commander of the [[Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco)|Order of Cultural Merit]] of Monaco <br>
Officer of the [[National Order of Chad]]<br/>[[Kalinga Prize]] (1984)
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'''Yves Coppens''' (9 August 1934 – 22 June 2022)<ref name=":Guardian">((Cite news |last=Pitts |first=Mike |date=2022-07-04 |title=Yves Coppens obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/04/yves-coppens-obituary |access-date=2022-07-04 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |language=en))</ref> was a French [[anthropology|anthropologist]] and co-discoverer of "Lucy"[1]. A graduate from the [[University of Rennes]] and the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], he studied ancient [[Hominidae|hominid]]s and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. In October 2014, Coppens was named an Ordinary Member of the [[Pontifical Academy of Sciences]] by [[Pope Francis]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/10/18/0767/01629.html|title=Rinunce e nomine|date=18 October 2014|website=press.vatican.va|language=it|trans-title=Renunciations and appointments|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022070515/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/10/18/0767/01629.html|archive-date=22 October 2014))</ref>

== Scientific work ==
He was Professor at the [[Collège de France|College de France]], which is considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment.<ref name="Appelrouth Desfor 2008">((cite book|title=Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings|first1=Scott |last1=Appelrouth |first2=Laura Desfor |last2=Edles |url=https://archive.org/details/classicalcontemp0000appe|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/classicalcontemp0000appe/page/641 641]|publisher=Pine Forge Press|year= 2008|oclc=1148204416|isbn=9780761927938))</ref><ref>((cite book|title=Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity|author=John Culbert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OI_7IvJ1O30C&pg=PA257|page=257|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0803234192)) ((verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/901503302 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/901402610 cite #3 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]))</ref>

[[Richard Dawkins]] makes the following observation in ''[[The Ancestor's Tale]]'': "Incidentally, I don't know what to make of the fact that in his native France, Yves Coppens is widely cited as the discoverer of [[Australopithecus afarensis|Lucy]], even as the 'father' of Lucy. In the English-speaking world, this important discovery is universally attributed to Donald Johanson".((citation needed|date=October 2018)) This confusion is because Coppens was the former director of the Hadar expedition. Donald Johanson, who led the 1974 expedition, was the one who found Lucy.<ref>Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind: 1981 by Johanson & Edey</ref> The "[[Rift Valley theory]]", proposed and supported by the Dutch primatologist [[Adriaan Kortlandt]],<ref>Kortlandt, A. (1972) - ''New perspectives on ape and human evolution'', Amsterdam, Stichting voor Psychobiologie.</ref> became better known when it was later espoused and renamed by Coppens as the "East Side Story". However, this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of ''[[Australopithecus bahrelghazali]]'' (Abel) and by the discovery of ''[[Sahelanthropus tchadensis]]'' by [[Michel Brunet (paleontologist)|Michel Brunet]]'s team in [[Toumaï]] in [[Chad]] (2,500&nbsp;km to west Rift Valley).<ref>2. Brunet, M. (1997) - « Origine des hominidés : East Side Story... West Side Story... », Géobios, M.S. n ° 20, 79–83</ref><ref>3.Brunet, M., Guy, F., Pilbeam, D., Mackaye, H. T., Likius, A. et al. (2002) - "A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa", ''Nature'', vol. 418, 11 July 2002, pp. 145–151.</ref>

The [[main-belt]] asteroid [[172850 Coppens]] was named in his honour.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official ((MoMP|172850|naming citation)) was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 21 March 2008 (((small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 62357))).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

Coppens advised on the French film ''[[Une Femme ou Deux]]'' (English: ''One Woman or Two''; 1985).<ref>David Howard Day (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=heDDiVRYn9UC&dq=%22One+Woman+or+Two%22+-westheimer+%22dr.+ruth%22&pg=PA136 ''A Treasure Hard to Attain; Images of Archaeology in Popular Film, with a Filmography'']</ref>

== Academies ==
Yves Coppens was a member of the [[French Academy of Sciences]], the [[French Academy of Medicine]], the [[Pontifical Academy of Sciences]] of [[Vatican City|Vatican]], the French Outremer Academy of Sciences, the [[Academia Europaea]], the Royal Academy of Sciences Hassan II of Morocco, the African Academy of Sciences, Arts, Cultures and Diasporas of Côte d'Ivoire, Honorary Member of the São Paulo Academy of Medicine, Associate Member of the [[Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium|Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium]], correspondent of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medicine, honorary member of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]], foreign associate of the [[Royal Society of South Africa]].

==Death==
Coppens died in Paris on 22 June 2022 at the age of 87.<ref>((Cite news |date=2022-06-24 |title=Yves Coppens obituary |language=en |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/yves-coppens-obituary-2wfhtc50g |access-date=2022-07-04 |url-access=subscription|issn=0140-0460))</ref><ref name=":0">((cite news |date=22 June 2022 |title=Yves Coppens, codécouvreur de Lucy et visage de la paléontologie française, est mort |language=FR |website=[[Le Monde]] |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2022/06/22/yves-coppens-visage-de-la-paleontologie-francaise-est-mort_6131606_1650684.html |access-date=22 June 2022))</ref>

== Awards ==
* Grand Officer of the [[National Order of the Legion of Honour]] 
* Grand Cross of the [[Ordre national du Mérite (France)|National Order of Merit]] of France <ref>((Légifrance|base=JORF|numéro=PREX1631886D |texte=Décret du 14 novembre 2016 portant élévation aux dignités de grand'croix et de grand officier))</ref><sup>,</sup><ref>((cite web|title=Yves Coppens, élevé à la dignité de grand'croix dans l'Ordre national du Mérite|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Membres-a-la-une/yves-coppens-grand-croix-dans-l-ordre-national-du-merite.html|website=academie-sciences.fr))</ref> 
* Commander of the [[Order of Arts and Letters]] of France
* Commander of the [[Order of Academic Palms]] of France
* Commander of the [[Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco)|Order of Cultural Merit]] of Monaco
* Officer of the [[National Order of Chad]]

== Doctorate honoris causa ==
* Doctorate honoris causa of the [[University of Chicago]]
* Doctorate honoris causa of the [[University of Bologna]]
* Doctorate honoris causa of the [[University of Mons]]
* Doctorate honoris causa of the [[University of Liège]]

== Charter of environment ==
Yves Coppens chaired the commission which wrote the French [[Charter for the Environment]] of 2004, now part of the [[Constitution of France|French Constitution]].

== See also ==
* ''[[A Species Odyssey]]''

== References ==
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<ref name="MPC-object">((cite web
  |title      = 172850 Coppens (2005 EU27)
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=172850
  |access-date = 30 October 2018))</ref>

<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">((cite web
  |title      = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
  |access-date = 30 October 2018))</ref>

)) <!-- end of reflist -->

== External links ==
* [http://lexnews.free.fr/sciences.htm Lexnews Magazine interview with Yves Coppens (in French)]

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