Jean-Jacques Hublin

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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.