Before and After “Out of Africa”: Evolution of Early Homo sapiens in Northwestern Africa

Homo sapiens’ evolution in northwestern Africa is explored by applying cutting-edge analytic methods to records from Moroccan cave sites and working with local researchers to recon-struct anatomy, technology, diet and symbolism; all findings to be on open access.

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Jean-Jacques Hublin

Jean-Jacques Hublin is Director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Honorary Professor at the University of Leipzig, and part-time professor at the Leiden University. He holds the International Chair in Paleoanthropology at the Collège de France, Paris.

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Balzan Prize - 2023