Jean-Jacques Hublin, Professor at the Collège de France and holder of the PaleoanthropologyChair, will givea lecture on Saturday 15 June 2024 at 11 h, entitled " Origin and expansion of Homo sapiens ", in the company of Aurélie Filippetti, Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Paris.
The conference will take place at the Marguerite Yourcenar media library, 41 rue d'Alleray, Paris 15th.
The conference will address questions of human evolution and, more broadly, the social construction of the human species in the light of the biological and cultural interactions that have shaped it.
Jean-Jacques Hublin is a paleoanthropologist, author of numerous works on the evolution of Neanderthals and the African origins of modern man. Since 2004, he has been Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany), where he created the Human Evolution Department. Since 2010, he has been a regular lecturer at Leiden University (Netherlands). In 2011, he was chosen to be the first president of the newly founded European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE). In 2017, together with Prof. Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, he led an international team that unearthed the remains of primitive Homo sapiens associated with stone tools and faunal remains at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. In September 2021, Jean-Jacques Hublin is appointed to the Paleoanthropology Chair at the Collège de France.
These lectures, aimed at the general public, reflect the variety of disciplines present at the Collège de France : history, economics, sociology, literature, but also biology, chemistry, mathematics and evolutionary sciences.
With this new event, the libraries of the City of Paris are fulfilling their mission to disseminate knowledge and combat misinformation by offering the public opportunities to decode and explore certain areas of knowledge in greater depth. The aim is also to open a window onto the world of research and how it works, and to bring Parisians closer to an exceptional institution, the Collège de France, which has been at the heart of the city's intellectual and scientific life for five centuries.
