Why and how to go back to the origins of humanity? (Replay)

Cover “Origins of man, origins of a man”, by Yves Coppens. © Editions Odile Jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Our guest of the day, the paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens will ask himself the following question: "Why and how to go back to the origins of humanity?"

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Meeting with the most famous of our paleontologists, Yves Coppens , discoverer of Lucy, who published his memoirs with Odile Jacob: Origins of man, origins of a man.

“Eighty years of memories, encounters, trips, initiatives, results, successes, joys, lots of little pleasures and very little misfortunes, great dazzling.
Paleoanthropology and archeology have the scientific and philosophical duty to reconstruct the history of man; they demonstrated that our roots were animal, proved our cousinhood with the great apes, declared our unique tropical and African origin, showed the logic of our gradual deployment throughout the world, and explained how consciousness and knowledge gradually gave to this funny little mammal that we are behavioral traits that we had not yet seen emerge, along the 4 billion year history of life, and which are free will and freedom, responsibility and dignity. » Yves Coppens.

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