Jean-Jacques Hublin

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Jean-Jacques Hublin (2015)

Jean-Jacques Hublin (born November 30, 1953 in Mostaganem , then French North Africa , now Algeria ) is a French anthropologist , director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and honorary professor of anthropology at the University of Leipzig . He is considered an expert on Pleistocene hominini .

Life

Jean-Jacques Hublin earned a bachelor's degree in geology at the University of Paris VI in 1975 and graduated there in 1976 with a master's degree in paleontology of vertebrates and humans . Two years later he also obtained a doctorate in the same field . Afterwards Hublin moved to the University of Bordeaux I , where he joined in 1991 in anthropology habilitated .

As part of a research grant from the French Ministry of Education and Research, Hublin's doctoral thesis was carried out from 1977 to 1978. From 1980 he worked for the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), most recently as director from 1993 to 2000. Afterwards he was professor of anthropology at the University of Bordeaux. In 2004, Hublin moved to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology as founding director of the Human Evolution department, where he researched the lives of prehistoric people. In 2006 he was also appointed honorary professor at the University of Leipzig. In 2013 he gave the Rudolf Virchow Lecture . Since 2014 he has been a visiting professor at the Collège de France in Paris.

Act

Hublin had initially dealt with the origin and evolution of the Neanderthals and, among other things, led a French project between 2000 and 2004 to research the language skills of Neanderthals. He also researched the effects that the arrival of modern humans in Europe had on Neanderthal populations. In addition, he repeatedly took part in excavation work - especially in the sites of the Moustérien in Morocco ( Jebel Irhoud ), France and Spain - and led some of them. As early as 1998, Hublin had the so-called accretion model (meaning: "Changes through additions"), according to which the Neanderthals developed in Europe and in genetic isolation from all other groups of the genus Homo and only developed their typical morphological characteristics in the course of this process , which make them distinguishable from all other species .

In Leipzig, Hublin started a project to digitize paleoanthropological finds with the help of a high-resolution mobile CT device that is loaned to participating institutes. The aim of the project is to set up a digital database that enables researchers to quickly access as many finds as possible.

In addition to numerous specialist articles, Hublin published several popular science books.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Michael P. Richards: The Evolution of Hominin Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence. Dordrecht, Springer 2009, ISBN 978-1-4020-9698-3 .
  • The origin of Neanderthals. In: PNAS . Volume 106, No. 38, 2009, pp. 16022-16027, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0904119106 .
  • The prehistory of compassion. In: PNAS. Volume 106, No. 16, 2009, pp. 6429-6430, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0902614106 .
  • with Bernard Seytre: Quand d'autres hommes peuplaient la terre. Flammarion, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-08-120584-0 .
  • with K. Harvati, P. Gunz and A. Ben-Ncer: Reassessment of the Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) Mousterian Adult Cranial Remains. In: PaleoAnthropology. 2007: A13.
  • with Share E. Bailey: Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution: State of the art research in dental paleoanthropology. Dordrecht, Springer 2007, ISBN 978-1-4020-5844-8 .
  • Origine du langage. In: O. Dutour, J.-J. Hublin and B. Vandermeersch (eds.): Origine et Evolution des Populations Humaines. Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, Paris 2005, pp. 377–394.
  • with Anne-Marie Tillier: Homo Sapiens En Busca de Sus Origenes. Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, San Diego 1999, ISBN 978-968-16-5589-1 .
  • with Fred Spoor, Marc Braun, Frans Zonneveld and Silvana Condemi: A late Neanderthal associated with Upper Palaeolithic artefacts. In: Nature. Volume 381, 1996, pp. 224-226, doi: 10.1038 / 381224a0 .
  • with C. Barroso Ruiz, P. Medina Lara, M. Fontugne and J.-L. Reyss: The Mousterian site of Zafarraya (Andalucia, Spain): dating and implications on the Palaeolithic peopling processes of Western Europe. In: Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. Volume 321 (IIa), 1995, pp. 931-937.
  • L'émergence des Homo sapiens archaïques: Afrique du Nord-Ouest et Europe occidentale. Habilitation thesis, Université de Bordeaux I, 1991, 2 volumes.
  • Origins of Man. Hart-Davis Educational, London 1982, ISBN 978-0-247-13039-5 .
  • Le torus occipital transverse et les structures associées. Evolution in the genre of Homo. Doctoral thesis, Université de Paris VI, 1978, 2 volumes.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Hublin: Climatic changes, paleogeography, and the evolution of the Neandertals. In: Takeru Akazawa, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef (Ed.): Neandertals and modern humans in Western Asia. Plenum, New York 1998, pp. 295-310.
  2. ↑ John D. Hawks, Milford H. Wolpoff : The accretion model of Neandertal evolution. In: evolution. Vol. 55, No. 7, 2001, pp. 1474-1485, ( JSTOR 2680341 abstract).
personal data
SURNAME Hublin, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Mostaganem , French North Africa