Louis de Bonis

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Louis de Bonis

Louis de Bonis (born October 1934 in Marseille ) is a French paleontologist and expert on the evolution and systematics of the predators of the Oligocene and the primates of the Neogene , especially the Miocene .

Life

Louis de Bonis grew up in Marseille and studied geology there under Suzanne Fabre-Taxy and Georges Corroy. After completing his studies in mineralogy in Montpellier and applied geology in Marseille in 1957/58 , he committed himself to serve in the French armed forces from 1959 to 1962 .

In 1962 he continued his university studies and earned a further degree in vertebrate paleontology and paleoanthropology at the University of Paris and a doctorate in 1963 with a study on vertebrates from the late Eocene . In 1970 he completed his habilitation at the newly founded Sorbonne , at whose precursor - the University of Paris - he had been employed as a research assistant since 1963.

In 1980 de Bonis was appointed professor of vertebrate palaeontology and paleoanthropology at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie . In the same year, however, he switched to a professorship at the University of Poitiers , where he remained active until his retirement in 2003.

research

After moving to the University of Poitiers , Louis de Bonis specialized in researching the tribal history of primates between around 20 and 5 million years ago. He also researched the tribal history of the feline and the Arctoidea (the bear , seal and marten relatives).

In addition to the results of his own excavations of fossil predators in southwest France and other places in France - as well as in Algeria , Djibouti , Romania and Chad - de Bonis published, among other things, on the connection between environmental and climatic changes and the evolution of mammals in Greece.

In the early 1970s, he was also one of the first paleontologists to use factor analysis for their research area.

In 1977 he assigned the primate fossils he had discovered in northern Greece from the late Miocene to the new genus Ouranopithecus and at the same time introduced the new species Ouranopithecus macedoniensis .

Louis de Bonis was one of the co-authors of the first description of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in 2002 .

Honors

In 1975 Louis de Bonis was awarded the AC Bonner Prize of the Académie des Sciences . He is also an honorary doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L. de Bonis: Étude de quelques Mammifères du Ludien de la Débruge (Vaucluse). In: Annales de Paléontologie (Vertébrés). Volume 50, 1964, pp. 121-154
  2. ^ L. de Bonis: Contribution à l'étude des Mammifères de l'Aquitanien de l'Agenais. Rongeurs, Carnivores, Périssodactyles. In: Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Serie C, Sciences de la Terre, Vol. 28, 1973, pp. 1-192
  3. ↑ L. de Bonis et al .: Diversity and paleoecology of Greek late Miocene mammalian faunas. In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol. 91, No. 1-2, 1992, pp. 99-121, doi: 10.1016 / 0031-0182 (92) 90035-4
  4. ↑ L. de Bonis, MO Lebeau and A. de Ricqlès: Étude de la répartition des types de tissus osseux chez les Vertébrés tétrapodes au moyen de l'analyse factorielle des correspondances. In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série D, Volume 274, Paris 1972, pp. 3084-3087
  5. ↑ L. de Bonis and J. Melentis: Un nouveau genre de Primate hominoïde dans le Vallésien (Miocène supérieur) de Macédoine. In: Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. Série D, Volume 284, Paris 1977, pp. 1393-1396
  6. ↑ Michel Brunet et al. a .: A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. In: Nature . Volume 418, 2002, pp. 145-151, doi: 10.1038 / nature00879
personal data
SURNAME Bonis, Louis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille