Yves Coppens was a French anthropologist and co-discoverer of "Lucy". A graduate from the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, he studied ancient hominids and had multiple published works on this topic, and also produced a film. From Wikipedia
The 1974 unearthing of Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, revolutionized our understanding of early human ancestors and continues to raise new questions.
