Jean-Jacques Hublin How Could the Modern Human Succeed over Other Hominids?
Jean-Jacques Hublin is Director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany). Hublin has taught at a number of International institutions, such as Leiden University (Netherlands), the University of California at Berkley, Harvard University (both USA), as well as the University of Bordeaux and since 2014 at the Collège de France in Paris. Hublin is doing extensive research on the evolution of Neanderthals and how their development intersects with that of the modern human. Between 2000 and 2003, he was Deputy Director of Anthropology, Prehistory and Paleo-environmental Sciences at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (France), the largest science agency in Europe.
Area of Research
Evolutionary Anthropology, Human Evolution
since 2014
International Chair of Palaeoanthropology
Collège du France, Paris
since 2010
Part-Time Professor
Leiden University
since 2006
Honorary Professor
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig)
since 2005
2000-2003
Professor
University of Bordeaux (Université de Bordeaux)
1993-2000
Director of Research
French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
UMR 152, UPR2147
1985-1993
Senior Researcher
French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
URA 49, UMR 152
1981-1985
Junior Researcher
French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
URA 49
1980-1981
Research Fellow
French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
At Université Pierre et Marie Curie
1976-1978
Research Fellow
DGRST at Université Pierre et Marie Curie
1991
Habilitation in Anthropology
University of Bordeaux (Université de Bordeaux)
1978
PhD in Vertebrate and Human Palaeontology
Pierre and Marie Curie University (Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie)
1976
Master in Vertebrate Palaeontology and Human Palaeontology
Pierre and Marie Curie University (Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie)
1975
Bachelor in Geology
Pierre and Marie Curie University (Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie)
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Nature
- PNAS
- Science
Prizes
- Listed as Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, Top 1% in His Field (2014)
- Rudopf Virchow Award, Prinz Maximilian zu Wied-Stiftung, RGZM Mainz (2013)
- ARC #DP1092843: “A Tale of Two Species: Constructing Chronologies for Patterns of Change in the Behaviour of Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans” (Co-PI)
- NSF #BCS-093549199: "Assessing the Faunal and Lithic Assemblages and Chronology of the Smugglers' Cave Site" (Co-PI) (2009)
- Marie Curie Actions MRTN-CT-2005-019564, European Virtual Anthropology Network (Co-PI) (2006-2009)
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Max Planck Society
"The Max Planck Society is Germany's most successful research organization. Since its establishment in 1948, no fewer than 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from the ranks of its scientists, putting it on a par with the best and most prestigious research institutions worldwide. The more than 15,000 publications each year in internationally renowned scientific journals are proof of the outstanding research work conducted at Max Planck Institutes – and many of those articles are among the most-cited publications in the relevant field." (Source)
Institute
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
"The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings". (Source)
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Modern humans colonized the whole planet and replaced all other hominids, such as Neanderthals. This evolvement raises interesting evolutionary questions concerning both species. The paleoanthropological research presented in this video looks at a moment in time when both co-existed. In order to find out about the differences between them, JEAN-JACQUES HUBLIN looks at both species’ use of technology, behavior, and social organization using molecular screening techniques and archeological research. While it has often been argued that the replacement of Neanderthals by the modern human occurred due to the modern human’s strong evolutionary superiority, this research counters that precisely because they once co-existed, Neanderthals must be more complex than previously assumed.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10306
The Modern Human Colonization of Western Eurasia: When and Where?
- Jean-Jacques Hublin
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Published in 2015
