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Jean-Jacques Hublin

Jean-Jacques Hublin

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
89
Citations
29651
World Ranking
2546
National Ranking
55

Overview

Jean-Jacques Hublin is a researcher affiliated with the Collège de France in France. Their work spans multiple fields, including Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant focus on Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Geometry and Topology.

The scientist's research centers on topics such as:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Paleopathology and ancient diseases

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean-Jacques Hublin include:

  • Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry (2021, Nature)
  • A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Early Middle Stone Age personal ornaments from Bizmoune Cave, Essaouira, Morocco (2021, Science Advances)
  • Evolution of brain lateralization: A shared hominid pattern of endocranial asymmetry is much more variable in humans than in great apes (2020, Science Advances)
  • Early presence of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia by 86-68 kyr at Tam Pà Ling, Northern Laos (2023, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Jean-Jacques Hublin include:

  • Geoffrey M. Smith
  • Frido Welker
  • Virginie Sinet-Mathiot
  • Helen Fewlass
  • Sahra Talamo

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Jean-Jacques Hublin has contributed to book publications as well, notably with a title published by Collège de France eBooks:
Homo sapiens, une espèce invasive (2022).

Best Publications

  • Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

    David Reich;Richard E. Green;Martin Kircher;Johannes Krause

  • New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

    Jean Jacques Hublin;Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer;Shara E. Bailey;Sarah E. Freidline

  • Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

    Qiaomei Fu;Heng Li;Priya Moorjani;Flora Jay

  • The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals

    Johannes Krause;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Ludovic Orlando;Wolfgang Enard

  • The origin of Neandertals

    Jean-Jacques Hublin

  • Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia.

    Johannes Krause;Ludovic Orlando;David Serre;Bence Viola

  • Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

    Francesco d'Errico;Marian Vanhaeren;Nick Barton;Abdeljalil Bouzouggar

  • A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Chuan Chou Shen;Shara E. Bailey;Shara E. Bailey

  • Earliest evidence of modern human life history in North African early Homo sapiens

    Tanya M. Smith;Paul Tafforeau;Donald J. Reid;Rainer Grün

  • Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

    Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Nathan Nakatsuka;Nathan Nakatsuka;Iosif Lazaridis;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund

  • Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals

    Tanya M. Smith;Paul Tafforeau;Donald J. Reid;Joane Pouech

  • Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

    Frido Welker;Matthew J. Collins;Jessica A. Thomas;Marc Wadsley

  • The evolution of modern human brain shape

    Simon Neubauer;Jean-Jacques Hublin;Philipp Gunz

  • The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: When and where?

    Jean-Jacques Hublin

  • Early brain growth in Homo erectus and implications for cognitive ability

    Hélène Coqueugniot;Jean-Jacques Hublin;Francis Veillon;Francis Houët

  • Brain development after birth differs between Neanderthals and modern humans

    Philipp Gunz;Simon Neubauer;Bruno Maureille;Jean-Jacques Hublin

  • A Wolff in sheep's clothing: trabecular bone adaptation in response to changes in joint loading orientation.

    Meir M. Barak;Daniel E. Lieberman;Jean-Jacques Hublin

  • Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne

    Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Mateja Hajdinjak;Sahra Talamo;Klervia Jaouen

  • Rapid dental development in a Middle Paleolithic Belgian Neanderthal

    Tanya M. Smith;Michel Toussaint;Donald J. Reid;Anthony J. Olejniczak

  • The evolution of modern human brain shape

    Neubauer S;Hublin J-J;Gunz P

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew M. Skinner
Matthew M. Skinner Max Planck Society
Philipp Gunz
Philipp Gunz Max Planck Society
Shannon P. McPherron
Shannon P. McPherron Max Planck Society
Katerina Harvati
Katerina Harvati University of Tübingen
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Daniel Richter
Daniel Richter Duke University

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