Science · Research & investigation
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Paleoanthropologist and fossil-study coauthor
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Jean-Jacques Hublin was part of the team excavating and studying the Jebel Irhoud fossils from Morocco. The 2017 fossil paper describes a mixture of modern and more archaic anatomical features, alongside a companion dating study. Together these contributions broadened discussion of when and where early Homo sapiens emerged in Africa.
His role links excavated evidence and anatomical interpretation in the timeline’s human-origins history.
Selected contributions
Selected works
Academic paper · 2017 · Peer-reviewed article; repository includes an accepted manuscript
New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
The team describes new Jebel Irhoud fossils that combine relatively modern facial and dental traits with a more archaic braincase. The abstract places these finds within a geographically broad account of early Homo sapiens evolution.
Reading scope & citation
Fresh repository abstract and metadata read; linked accepted manuscript not read in this pass. Fresh repository author list, abstract, DOI and accepted-manuscript availability read; full manuscript and measurements not audited.
DOI: 10.1038/nature22336
In the timeline
- c. 315,000 years agoEarly Homo sapiens evidence at Jebel Irhoud
Biography sources & portrait credit
- The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age ↗Nature; author-hosted PDF, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens ↗Nature; abstract and metadata held by Kent Academic Repository
Portrait credit
EVA-son. CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
