Jean-Jacques Hublin
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Nationality | French |
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Fields | Paleoanthropology |
Jean-Jacques Hublin (born 30 November 1953) is a
Hublin is the president of the
Personal life and education
Hublin lived in Algeria until his family fled the country in the last year of the independence war in 1961. He spent his teenage years living in the subsidized housing of the northern Parisian suburbs. He later trained as a geologist and paleontologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, where he received his doctorate in 1978 under the supervision of Prof. B. Vandermeersch. He received his state doctorate (habilitation) in anthropology in 1991 at the University of Bordeaux. Hublin currently lives in Leipzig, Germany with his wife Svetlana.
Career
After being hired as a researcher with the
In 2023 he was awarded the Balzan Prize.[5]
Controversy
In 2019, a largely-anonymous group of early-career researchers pledged to boycott the annual meeting of the
Scientific work
Hublin has dedicated most of his career to the study of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins, and in particular, to the biological and cultural evolution of Neandertals and to the origin of modern humans. He has also conducted fieldwork in various sites in Europe and North Africa. He also is the president of the
The origin of the Neandertals
Hublin’s research initially focused on the origin of Neandertals, and in early 1980s, he used
North Africa and the origin of Homo sapiens
Another major focus of his research is on the origin of modern humans in Africa, specifically North Africa, where he has been conducting fieldwork for several years. In particular, at the site of Jebel Irhoud (Morocco), he has discovered important new fossil hominins, which document the emergence of our species more than 300,000 years ago and reveal that early Homo sapiens were not only represented in sub-Saharan Africa.[7]
The fate of Neandertals
Hublin's demonstration that modern behaviors were present in the very last Neandertals was a major contribution to the field.[citation needed] His work on Late Neandertal sites, such as those of Saint-Césaire and Arcy-sur-Cure (France)(list of Neandertal sites), provided evidence for the late survival of Neandertals in Europe after the arrival of modern humans and the beginning of a genuinely “Upper Paleolithic” culture on the continent. He was one of the first to promote the “acculturation hypothesis”, which seeks to explain the cultural evolution of the latest western Neandertals through the distant influence of the first modern populations already present in central Europe.
Virtual paleoanthropology
In 1992, Hublin published the first application of virtual manipulation for the reconstruction of a human fossil from multiple pieces. Since then, he has further developed these techniques which provide new insights into the understanding of the anatomical evolution, cognitive development, and life history of our ancestors and their extinct relatives. His group provided new evidence on diverse issues such as the timing of brain development in early representatives of the genus Homo, the birth process of Neandertals, and the dental development of early Homo sapiens and Neandertals.[citation needed]
Honours
- 2017: Commander of the Order of Intellectual Merit (Morocco)[8]
- 2019: Knight of the Legion of Honour (France)[9]
- 2023: Balzan Prize[10]
Selected publications
Books
- Cohen, C.; Hublin, J.-J. (1989). Boucher de Perthes, les origines romantiques de la Préhistoire (in French). Paris: Belin. ISBN 9782410009354.
- Bailey, S.; Hublin, J.-J., eds. (2007). Dental Perspectives on Human Evolution; State of the Art Research in Dental Paleoanthropology. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9781402058448.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Seytre, Bernard (2008). Quand D'Autres Hommes Peuplaient La Terre: Nouveaux Regards Sur Nos Origines [When other humans populated the earth: new views of our origins]. Nouvelle Bibliothéque Scientifique (in French). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 9782081252424.
- Hublin, J.-J.; Richards, M.P., eds. (2009). The Evolution of Hominin Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9789048181865.
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques (1982). "Les anténéandertaliens: Presapiens ou prénéandertaliens". Geobios (in French). 15: 345–357. ISSN 0016-6995.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; et al. (1987). "L'humérus d'enfant moustérien (Homo 4) du Djebel Irhoud (Maroc) dans son contexte archéologique". Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. 4 (2): 115–141. .
- Hublin, J.-J. (1990). "Les peuplements paléolithiques de l'Europe : Un point de vue paléobiogéographique". Mémoires du ISSN 0991-5761.
- Hublin, Jean-jacques; et al. (1992). "Recent human evolution in northwestern Africa". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 337 (1280): 185–191. PMID 1357693.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; et al. (1996). "A late Neanderthal associated with Upper Palaeolithic artefacts". Nature. 381 (6579): 224–226. S2CID 4370339.
- Hublin, J.-J. (1998), Akazawa, Takeru; Aoki, Kenichi; Bar-Yosef, Ofer (eds.), "Climatic Changes, Paleogeography, and the Evolution of the Neandertals", Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia, Springer US, pp. 295–310, ISBN 978-0-306-47153-7
- Hublin, J. J. (2009). "The origin of Neandertals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (38): 16022–16027. PMID 19805257.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques (2014). "Paleoanthropology: Homo erectus and the Limits of a Paleontological Species". Current Biology. 24 (2): R82–R84. PMID 24456983.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; et al. (2015). "Brain ontogeny and life history in Pleistocene hominins". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370 (1663): 20140062. PMID 25602066.
- Hublin, Jean-Jacques; et al. (2017). "New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens". Nature. 546 (7657): 289–292. S2CID 256771372.
References
- ^ a b Williams, Shawna (August 30, 2019), "Scholars Boycott Meeting, Citing Misconduct Accusations", The Scientist; via "Weekend reads", Retraction Watch, September 7, 2019
- ^ Jean Jacques Hublin at Who's Who in France (retrieved 10 November 2009)
- ^ Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute (retrieved 10 November 2009)
- PMID 19892956.
- ^ Balzan Prize 2023
- ^ Trinkaus, E., Shipman, P., 1992. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York
- .
- ^ "Award ceremony in Morocco". 2017-03-08.
- ^ "Décret du 31 décembre 2018 portant promotion et nomination". 2019-01-01.
- ^ "Prix Balzan 2023". 2023-11-21.