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2 unusual facts about Ian Tattersall


Cathemerality

In the original manuscript for his paper, "Patterns of activity in the mayotte lemur, Lemur fulvus mayottensis," Ian Tattersall introduced the term "cathemerality" to describe a pattern of observed activity that was neither diurnal nor nocturnal.

Ian Tattersall

--(born October 5, 1945)--> is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York.



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