Winfried Henke

Winfried Henke (* 1944 in Ludwigshorst / Pomerania ) is a German professor of biological anthropology .

Life

Winfried Henke studied biology , geosciences , anthropology , education and philosophy at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and at the University of Braunschweig . In 1971 he was at the University of Kiel in anthropology doctorate . Then he became a research assistant at the Institute of Anthropology Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he / Biology is in anthropology habilitated . Winfried Henke is Academic Director and Associate Professor at the University of Mainz.

Act

The focus of his work is to understand the process of hominization as an adaptive development in primate evolution, following two approaches of paleoanthropology and having significantly influenced its methodology through exemplary studies: the comparative-primatological approach and the analysis of fossil remains. He studies the morphology of fossil and recent primates, where he u. a. uses multivariate statistical methods. Together with Hartmut Rothe , Henke also devoted himself to the systematic presentation of the principles and methods of a theory-based paleoanthropology.

Memberships and honors

• Honorary doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for his "outstanding work" in the field of anthropology (2006)
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2007)
• since 2013 member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin

Fonts

• with Hartmut Rothe : Stammesgeschichte des Menschen , Springer Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-540-64831-3
• with Hartmut Rothe: Human Development , Fischer Frankfurt / Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-15554-1
• with Ian Tattersall: Handbook of Palaeoanthropology , Springer Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-540-33858-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Winfried Henke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Incarnation as an evolutionary ecological process. Lecture at the Colloquium Bios-Cultus-Religio , WiSe 2005/2006 at the LMU Munich (in Quicktime format with simultaneousdisplay ofthe Powerpoint presentation)