Jean Piveteau

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Jean Piveteau (born September 23, 1899 in Rouillac ( Département Charente ), † March 7, 1991 in Paris ) was a French paleontologist . He was particularly interested in fossil vertebrates and human evolution .

Piveteau went to school in Angouleme and Paris .

He studied with Marcellin Boule in Paris and was then at the École des Mines . In 1938 he became a lecturer (Maitre de Conférences) at the Sorbonne and in 1942 he became professor of palaeontology there. He had a broad philosophical and cultural background and, in addition to palaeontology, also taught methodology of the sciences and logic from 1941 to 1945. He sponsored excavations on prehistoric people in France as President of the Conseil Supérieure de la Recherche Archéologique and in particular the collaboration with and excavations in Israel (he was temporarily president of the Paléorient Society founded by Jean Perrot (1920-2012) ) and was mainly concerned with himself with Neanderthals . He had been friends with Teilhard de Chardin since his student days.

He was the first president of the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation (from 1964 to 1982), and was succeeded by Henry de Lumley . In 1960 he became an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . He had been a member of the Académie des sciences since 1956 and was President of the Institut de France .

He is also known as the editor of a French manual on paleontology.

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  • Editor: Traité de paleontologie , 7 volumes, 1952–1969 (from him especially contributions to volume 7 on paleoanthropology)
  • Des premiers vertébrés à l'homme (1973)
  • Origine et destinée de l'homme (1983)
  • La main et l'hominisation (1991)

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