Michel Brunet (paleontologist)
Michel Brunet (born April 6, 1940) is a French
paleontologist and a professor at the
Collège de France. In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late
Miocene hominid nicknamed
Toumaï. These remains may predate the earliest previously known hominid remains,
Lucy, by over three million years; however, this conclusion is the subject of a significant controversy.
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