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What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani mentions Jean-Jacques Hublin mainly in the session "Les apories de l'anthropologie" (2022), where he presents him as the palaeoanthropologist who, with Ben-Ncer, is resuming the excavations at Jebel Irhoud1. He regards him as a specialist in hominids and recommends his lectures available on YouTube2. Above all, he retains Hublin's thesis that no boundary separates the human from the non-human, and considers that on this point he proves a better philosopher than many philosophers3. He also takes from Hublin the idea that we are still undergoing hominisation4, as well as his remark on the singular length of the relationship between parents and children in the human species5. In 2025, in "Flagrandélices", he returns to him, presenting him as a palaeoanthropologist at the Collège de France and restating the same idea: the movement that brought forth sapiens is not over6. From one session to the next, he thus draws on him to think of hominisation as an unfinished process.
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Who is this?
Jean-Jacques Hublin (born 30 November 1953) is a French paleoanthropologist. He is a professor at the Max Planck Society, Leiden University and the University of Leipzig and the founder and director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is best known for his work on the Pleistocene hominins, and on the Neandertals and early Homo sapiens, in particular. […]