Madelaine Böhme

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Madelaine Böhme (* 1967 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria ) is a German geoscientist , paleontologist and, since the end of 2009, professor of palaeoclimatology at the University of Tübingen . Her specialty is terrestrial paleoclimatology and the evolution of early great apes.

Career

Madelaine Böhme graduated from high school in Dresden in 1986 and studied geology at the Institute of Geology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg from 1987 to 1992 , from which she graduated in 1993 with a diploma in geology. In the following years she was a research assistant at the Institute for Geophysics and Geology at the University of Leipzig , where she received her doctorate in geology-paleontology at the beginning of 1997. Her unpublished dissertation is titled Revision of the Oligocene and Sub-Miocene Representatives of the Genus Palaeoleuciscus (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) of Central Europe.

As a post-doc fellow and research fellow, from 2001 onwards as part of a habilitation position, she worked from 1998 to 2006 at the Institute for Paleontology and Historical Geology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2003 she qualified as a professor at the Department of Geosciences and Environmental Sciences with a thesis on palaeoclimate and aquatic ecosystems in Neogene Europe. Since 2007 she has been a Heisenberg fellow of the DFG .

Böhme's research focuses on the evolution of early humans and their precursors and their relationship to climate development over the last 25 million years. Her studies on climate development in Europe during the Miocene have been published in several international journals. She carried out excavation projects in Southeast Europe, Vietnam , Laos , West Siberia and South Germany, among others .

Studies on Graecopithecus freybergi

In 2017, Böhme, together with a research team, examined a lower jaw found in Greece and a tooth from Bulgaria , which are attributed to the prehistoric man Graecopithecus freybergi . The scientists dated the finds to an age of 7.175 and 7.24 million years, which makes them older than the oldest known prehistoric man, Sahelanthropus , who comes from Africa. From their point of view, this allows the conclusion that the separation of the lines of development from pre-humans and chimpanzees could have taken place earlier than previously assumed in the eastern Mediterranean and not, as previously assumed, in Africa.

First description by Danuvius guggenmosi

In 2019, Böhme and her team described the 11.62 million year old, extinct great ape Danuvius guggenmosi for the first time , which may already have been two-legged and also climbed in what is now Ostallgäu. For the first time, several functionally important joints were found in a fossil skeleton of this age, some bones more similar to humans than the great apes.

documentary

In 2019/2020 the science documentary "Europe - Cradle of Humanity?" (Online: Odysso extra. Europe - Cradle of Humanity? @ Swr.de) by Florian Breier and Rüdiger Braun was published.

Books

  • Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, Florian Breier: How we became humans - A criminal search for clues to the origins of humanity. Heyne, Munich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-20718-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Seifert: Newly appointed: Madelaine Böhme. In: Newsletter Uni Tübingen current. 3/2010, 2010, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme. In: AcademiaNet. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Madelaine Böhme: List of publications. In: seine-staerke.com. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
  4. ^ Madelaine Böhme: The Miocene Climatic Optimum: evidence from ectothermic vertebrates of Central Europe. (pdf; 1 MB) In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 195, No. 3-4, June 2003, pp. 389-401 , accessed on May 7, 2020 (English, doi : 10.1016 / S0031-0182 (03) 00367-5 ).
  5. ↑ Madelaine Böhme, August Ilg, Michael Winklhofer: Late Miocene “washhouse” climate in Europe. (pdf; 1.3 MB) In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 275, No. 3–4, November 2008, pp. 393–401 , accessed on May 7, 2020 (English, doi : 10.1016 / j.epsl.2008.09.011 ).
  6. ↑ Jochen Fuss, Nikolai Spassov, David R. Begun, Madelaine Böhme: Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe. In: PLOS ONE . 12, No. 5, May 22, 2017, p. E0177127 , accessed on May 23, 2017 (English, ISSN  1932-6203 , doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0177127 ). Evolution: did the first pre-humans come from the Balkans? In: Zeit Online . May 22, 2017, accessed May 7, 2020 . Was the oldest pre-human being a European? In: orf.at . May 22, 2017, accessed May 7, 2020 . New theory. Researchers move the cradle of mankind from Africa to Europe. In: spiegel.de . May 22, 2017, accessed August 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Madelaine Böhme et al: A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans. In: Nature, November 6, 2019, doi: 10.1038 / s41586-019-1731-0 .
  8. ↑ Nicole Köster : Madelaine Böhme, geoscientist and paleontologist made a spectacular find. (mp4 video; 75.5 MB; 32:28 minutes) In: SWR1-Baden-Württemberg broadcast “ People ”. December 17, 2019, accessed May 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Europe - cradle of humanity @ spielfilm.de; "German TV premiere: 02/08/2020 arte", according to www.fernsehserien.de , accessed August 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Madelaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geoscientist, paleontologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Plovdiv , Bulgaria