BOISSERIE Jean-Renaud
Senior Researcher at CNRS
Main research question
I study the evolutionary history of extinct large mammals, their impact on their fossil ecosystems, and the factors that shaped their paleobiology.
Topics of study
I apply this approach to the large semiaquatic herbivores, notably fossils hippopotamids, of which I study the diversity, the relationships, the ecology, and the distribution.
I also supervise researches at the ecosystem scale by focusing on the Neogene of Africa and groups such as suids and hominids.
Fieldworks
For this I created the Omo Group Research Expedition, which develops a transdisciplinary research on the Shungura Formation, in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
Project management
- Task manager of the ANR project EVAH, from 2009 to 2013.
- Supervisor of the ANR project SPLASH, from 2016 to 2020.
- Technical and scientific manager of the ANR project OLD, from 2017 to 2021.
- Supervisor of the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine project ECCE OMO, from 2017 to 2020.
Other responsibilities
- « Recommender » pour Peer Community In Paleontology
- Éditeur pour la revue Annales d’Éthiopie
- Éditeur pour la revue Palaeovertebrata
- Membre de la commission de spécialistes 35/36 (section CNU) de l’université de Poitiers
Find out more
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Renaud_Boisserie
- http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20181016-comment-remonter-traces-humanite-ethiopie-reportage-charlie-dupiot
- http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2009/12/breakthrough-year-tale-two-paleontologists
- https://paleo.peercommunityin.org/
- CV
Contact
- Build. B35 – 3rd floor, south wing – Room 427
- jean.renaud.boisserie@univ-poitiers.fr
Iconic publications
Boisserie J.-R., Suwa G., Asfaw B., Lihoreau F., Bernor R. L., Katoh S., Yonas B., 2017. Basal hippopotamines from the upper Miocene of Chorora, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (3), 1-12.
Maurin T., Bertran P., Delagnes A., Boisserie J.-R., 2017. Early hominin landscape use in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia: insights from the taphonomical analysis of Oldowan occurrences in the Shungura Formation (Member F). Journal of Human Evolution 111, 33-53.
Lihoreau F., Boisserie J.-R., Manthi F.K., Ducrocq S., 2015. Hippos stem from the longest sequence of terrestrial cetartiodactyl evolution in Africa. Nature Communications 6, 1-8.
Boisserie J.-R., Souron A., Mackaye H.T., Likius A., Vignaud P., Brunet M., 2014. A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Cetartiodactyla: Suidae) from the late Miocene Toros-Ménalla, Chad, central Africa. PLoS ONE 9, 1-22.
Bibi F., Souron A., Bocherens H., Uno K., Boisserie J.-R., 2013. Ecological change in the lower Omo Valley around 2.8 Ma. Biology Letters 9, 1–4.
Boisserie J.-R., Fisher R.E., Lihoreau F., Weston E.M., 2011. Evolving between land and water: key questions on the emergence and history of the Hippopotamidae (Hippopotamoidea, Cetancodonta, Cetartiodactyla). Biological Reviews 86, 601–625.
White T.D., Ambrose S.H., Suwa G., Su D.F., DeGusta D., Bernor R.L., Boisserie J.-R., Brunet M., Delson E., Frost S., Garcia N., Giaourtsakis I.X., Haile-Selassie Y., Howell F.C., Lehmann T., Likius A., Pehlevan C., Saegusa H., Semprebon G., Teaford M., Vrba E., 2009. Macrovertebrate paleontology and the Pliocene habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science 326, 87–92.
Boisserie J.-R., Guy F., Delagnes A., Hlusko L.J., Bibi F., Beyene Y., Guillemot C., 2008. New palaeoanthropological research in the Plio-Pleistocene Omo Group, Lower Omo Valley, SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities and People Regions), Ethiopia. Comptes Rendus Palevol 7, 429–439.
Boisserie J.-R., Lihoreau F., Brunet M., 2005. The position of Hippopotamidae within Cetartiodactyla. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102, 1537–1541.
Boisserie J.-R., 2005. The phylogeny and taxonomy of Hippopotamidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla): a review based on morphology and cladistic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143, 1–26.