# Jean-Jacques Hublin Up: [[Consciousness, Neural Transduction and Human Origins]] Paleoanthropologist (Collège de France; formerly Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). ## Relevance - Led the Jebel Irhoud, Morocco study dating early *Homo sapiens* to about 315 ka (Nature 546:289, 2017). Our species is far older than the supposed 50 ka leap.