Nicolas Bourgon

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Dr. Nicolas Bourgon is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. He specializes in zinc stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel to study dietary adaptation and trophic ecology in fossil humans and animals, particularly in tropical environments. Bourgon earned his PhD in Geosciences in 2022 from Johannes Gutenberg University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, after completing his MA in Archaeology at the Paris National Natural History Museum and a BA in Archaeology at Laval University.