Berthe Rakotosamimanana

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Berthe Rakotosamimanana , also Madame Berthe (born as Berthe Rasoamialinivo on January 18, 1938 in Andasibe , Moramanga district , Madagascar ; died on November 29, 2005 in Antananarivo ), was a Malagasy palaeontologist , primatologist and university teacher.

Career

Berthe Rakotosamimanana acquired in 1967 with a dissertation on the papillary ridges of three ethnic groups of Madagascar at the natural science faculty of the University of Paris the Doctorat de 3ème cycle in biological anthropology . She then returned to Madagascar and was commissioned to teach geology at the natural science faculty of the Université d'Antananarivo . From 1974 she worked for the newly established Chair of Paleontology . In 1977 she received the Doctorat d'Etat from the University of Paris VII with a dissertation on anthropological diversity in the highlands of Madagascar . Afterwards she was responsible for courses in geology and paleontology at the Université d'Antananarivo and until 1983 director at the Ministry of Education and Research. From 1986 to 1992 she was an advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education. In 1993 the Chair of Paleontology became the Chair of Paleontology and Biological Anthropology on her initiative. There she took over the management of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie there in 1995 and held it until she retired in 1998. She continued to work at the faculty until 2003 and supervised doctoral students until her death.

The research of Rakotosamimananas focused on the fossil and subfossil mammalian fauna of Madagascar. As a co-author, she was involved in the first descriptions of † Ambondro mahabo , an early mammal from the Malagasy Middle Jurassic ( Bathonium ), and † Babakotia , a genus of lemurs that became extinct less than 1000 years ago.

Rakotosamimanana was a member of a number of international professional associations and organizations working in the fields of biological anthropology, primate research and the protection of biodiversity . In 1994, Rakotosamimanana was the co-founder and first president of the Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur les primates de Madagascar (GERP), an Antananarivo- based non-profit organization for research on Malagasy primates . She held the office of President of the GERP until her death.

While Rakotosamimanana was still alive, a newly described species of mouse lemur was named after her, Berthe's mouse lemur . With this, the authors of the first description paid tribute to the long-term coordination of research carried out with the German Primate Center in the Kirindy-Mitea National Park , the habitat of Berthe's mouse lemur.

Dedication names

Madame Berthe's Mausmaki

Initial descriptions

Publications (selection)

  • Berthe Rakotosamimanana: Etude des dermatoglyphes digito-palmaires de trois groupes ethniques malgaches (Antandroy, Bara, Merina) . Dissertation, Université de Paris, Faculté des Sciences de Paris 1967.
  • Berthe Rakotosamimanana: Diversité anthropobiologique des isolats des Hautes-Terres (Imerina, Madagascar). Confrontations du biologique et du social. Études comparatives . Thèse de Doctorat, Sciences naturelles, Paris 1976.
  • Sergio Crovella, Daniel Montagnon, Berthe Rakotosamimanana and Yves Rumpler: Molecular biology and systematics of an extinct Lemur: Pachylemur insignis . In: Primates 1994, Volume 35, No. 4, pp. 519-522, doi : 10.1007 / bf02381961 .
  • Berthe Rakotosamimanana et al. (Ed.): New Directions in Lemur Studies . Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York 1999, ISBN 978-1-4613-7131-1 .
  • John J. Flynn, J. Michael Parrish, Berthe Rakotosamimanana, William F. Simpson, Robin L. Whatley, and André R. Wyss: A Triassic Fauna from Madagascar, Including Early Dinosaurs . In: Science 1999, Volume 286, No. 5440, pp. 763-765, doi : 10.1126 / science.286.5440.763 .
  • Solofonirina Rasoloharijaona, Berthe Rakotosamimanana, Blanchard Randrianambinina and Elke Zimmermann: Pair-specific usage of sleeping sites and their implications for social organization in a nocturnal Malagasy primate, the Milne Edwards' sportive lemur (Lepilemur edwardsi) . In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2003, Vol. 122, No. 3, pp. 251-258, doi : 10.1002 / ajpa.10281 .
  • K. Praveen Karanth , Thomas Delefosse, Berthe Rakotosamimanana, Thomas J. Parsons and Anne D. Yoder : Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs confirms single origin of Malagasy primates . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005, Volume 102, No. 14, pp. 5090-5095, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0408354102

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralaiarison Raharizelina Raobivelonoro: Professeur Berthe Rakotosamimanana . In: Lemur News. The Newsletter of the Madagascar Section of the IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group Number 11, June 2006, p. 1, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dpz.eu%2Ffileadmin%2Fcontent%2FBibliothek%2FDownloads%2FLemur_News%2FLemur%2520News%252011%2520%25282006%2529.pdf IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D .
  2. ↑ a b Yves Rumpler: Professeur Berthe Rakotosamimanana . In: Lemur News. The Newsletter of the Madagascar Section of the IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group Number 11, June 2006, p. 2.
  3. ↑ a b Rodin M. Rasoloarison , Steven M. Goodman and Jörg U. Ganzhorn : Taxonomic revision of Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus) in the Western Portion of Madagascar . In: International Journal of Primatology 2000, Volume 21, No. 6, pp. 963-1019, doi : 10.1023 / A: 1005511129475 .
  4. ↑ Steven M. Goodman and Florent Ravoavy: Identification of bird subfossils from cave surface deposits at Anjohibe, Madagascar, with a description of a new giant Coua (Cuculidae: Couinae) . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 1993, Volume 106, No. 1, pp. 24-33, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Dproceedingsofb1061993biol~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3Dn42~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  5. ^ John J. Flynn, J. Michael Parrish, Berthe Rakotosamimanana, William F. Simpson, and André R. Wyss: A Middle Jurassic mammal from Madagascar . In: Nature , Volume 401, No. 6748, pp. 57-60, doi : 10.1038 / 43420 .
  6. ↑ Laurie R. Godfrey, Elwyn L. Simons , Prithijit S. Chatrath and Berthe Rakotosamimanana: A new fossil lemur (Babakotia, Primates) from northern Madagascar . In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série 2, Mécanique, Physique, Chimie, Sciences de l'univers, Sciences de la Terre 1990, Volume 310, No. 1, pp. 81-87, digitized on Gallica .
personal data
SURNAME Rakotosamimanana, Berthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madame Berthe (alternative name); Rasoamialinivo, Berthe (maiden name); Rakotosamimanana-Rasoamialinivo, Berthe (long form of married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malagasy palaeontologist, primatologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Andasibe , Moramanga District , Madagascar
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 2005
Place of death Antananarivo