GUY Franck
CNRS Researcher
Main research question
My research focus on hominin origin and evolution. In particular, I’m interested in cranial and dental material of African Mio-Pliocene hominins.
Topics of study
Among various approaches, I notably use tools and methods derived from the field of 3D imaging (µCT-scan, 3D virtual data analysis 3D eg morphometry), an efficient way to finely characterize morphology and its variation.
In addition, I develop a project based on 3D topographic analyses which aims to study dental adaptation and evolution in primates (in collaboration with V. Lazzari).
Fieldworks
The field work comprises regular or occasional field missions in Ethiopia (coll. JR Boisserie), Greece (coll. G. Merceron), Morocco (coll. M. Benammi) or Romania (coll. G. Daver). My principal field activity takes place in Chad with numerous filed missions carried out from 1996 to 2008 (coll. M. Brunet) and coming new field campaigns.
Project management
I contribute to various projects, notably the ANRs OLD (PIs A. Delagnes & JR Boisserie) and Diet-Scratches (PI G. Merceron). I initiated the ANR project DieT-PrimE (2018-2021) in collaboration with V. Lazzari.
Other responsibilities
- Membre du Conseil Scientifique d’Institut de l’INEE – fin 2018
- Membre de la commission de spécialistes Section 35/36
- Managing board member du PCI Paleo (paleo.peercommunityin.org)
Contact
- Build. B35 – 3rd floor, north wing – Room 409
- franck.guy@univ-poitiers.fr
Iconic publications
Kostopoulos D. S., Guy F., Koufos G. D., Valentin X., Merceron G. (2018) A 2Ma-old baboon-like monkey from Northern Greece: Procynocephalus aff. arvernensis (Primates: Cercopithecidae) Journal of Human Evolution, (in press).
G Thiery, G Gillet, V Lazzari, G Merceron, F Guy. 2017. Was Mesopithecus a seed eating colobine? Assessment of cracking, grinding and shearing ability using dental topography. Journal of Human Evolution 112: 79−92.
Guy F., Boistel R., Lenoir N., de Bonis L. 2015. A Middle Pleistocene fossil hominin maxilla from the Republic of Djibouti (East Africa).Anthropological Science 09/2015.
Guy F., Lazzari V., Gilissen E., Thiery G. 2015. To What Extent is Primate Second Molar Enamel Occlusal Morphology shaped by the Enamel−Dentine Junction? PLoS ONE 10(9): e0138802.
Neaux D., Coudyzer W., Gilissen E., Guy F. (2015) Integration between the face and the mandible in Pongo and the evolution of the craniofacial morphology of orang-utans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology: 158(3):475−86
Guy, F., Mackaye, H. T., Likius, A., Vignaud, P., Schmittbuhl, M., Brunet, M. 2008. Symphyseal shape variation in living and fossil hominoids, and the symphysis of Australopithecus bahrelghazali, Journal of Human Evolution, 55: 37−47.
Guy, F. et al. 2005. Morphological affinities of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Late Miocene Hominid, Chad) cranium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102: 18836-18841.
Brunet, M., Guy, F. et al. 2005. New material of the Earliest Hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad. Nature, 434: 752-755.
Guy, F. et al. 2003. New approaches in hominoid taxonomy: morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 121: 198-218.
Brunet, M., Guy, F. et al. 2002. A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. Nature, 418: 145-151.