Description | Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 July 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He was the first to discover the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape. He and George Busk headed an expedition to Gibralter to look for early human remains, after the re-examination of a cranium found in 1848, which was recognized in the 20th century as a Neandertal, one of the most complete ever found. Busk and Falconer named it Homo calpicus. Hugh Falconer in Wikipedia |