Hugh Falconer MD, FRS (February 29 1808 - January 31 1865), was a distinguished Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and made the first discovery of the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He may have been the first to discover a fossil ape, as well. Falconer was the youngest son of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire. Wikipedia
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Hugh Falconer MD, FRS (February 29, 1808 - January 31, 1865), was a distinguished geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and made the first discovery of the modern www.falconermuseum.co.uk/founders.html
Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), British palaeontologist and botanist, descended from an old Scottish family, was born at Forres on the 29th of February 1808. In 1826 he graduated at Aberdeen , where he manifested a taste for the study of natural history. He www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hugh_Falconer
Hugh Falconer was born in Forres and educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh where he graduated an MD in 1829. He spent some time assisting Dr Wallich with his Indian herbarium before being sent to Landour in the Himalayas to take charge of the sanatorium. I www.clankeithusa.org/history-famouskeiths-19th.htm
