Jean Piveteau (23 September 1899 – 7 March 1991) was a distinguished French

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. He was elected to the

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in 1956 and served as the institute's president in 1973.

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French anthropologists Anthropology educators Human evolution theorists French paleoanthropologists Officers of the French Academy of Sciences French educators Academic staff of the University of Paris 1899 births 1991 deaths 20th-century anthropologists {{France-scientist-stub