A recent review article by Eduard Pop, Sofwan Noerwidi and Fred Spoor (Eugène Dubois chair 2024) offers a fresh perspective on the naming of Homo erectus. Titled “Naming Homo erectus: A review,” the study reevaluates the holotype fossils from Trinil, Java, Indonesia, quest
It is with great sorrow that the Eugène Dubois Foundation has taken notice of the passing of Professor Frans de Waal. Frans de Waal was a renowned investigator of the behaviour of chimpanzees and other primates. He had a major impact on our scientific understanding of the behaviour of
Dr. Fred Spoor, an expert on human evolution affiliated with the Natural History Museum, London, has been appointed as the Eugène Dubois chair for the year 2024. Professor Spoor (1959) was born in South Limburg and trained as a biologist and mammal paleontologist at Utrecht University
This lecture is organised in cooperation with Studium Generale Maastricht, in special remembrance of late Prof. dr. Joep Geraedts. He was the founding father of the Department of Clinical Genetics at Maastricht UMC+ and one of the founders and the first chairman of our Eugène Dubois F
Joep Geraedts was one of the founders and the first chairman of the Eugène Dubois Foundation. We recently received the sad news that Joep passed away on 25 December 2022. Joep was born in 1948 in Swalmen. After high school he studied Biology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. He
Lecture Monday 14 November, 20:00 Frans Palm Lecture Hall, Tongersestraat 53 Prof. Frans de Waal Director of Living Links Center of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center Registration You can register here How different are men and women? Are differences due to nature or nurture?
Date: Monday 3 October, 20:00 Location: Auditorium, Minderbroedersberg 4-6 Speaker: Prof. Carel van Schaik, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich Description: From before the classic Greek period until the early 20th c
Within the history of discovering evolution, there are a few names that stand out: Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck or Ernst Mayr. However, few are aware of a local scientist who ultimately provided the first evidence of the evolutionary transition from apes to hum
Dr. Tijs Goldschmidt has been appointed Eugène Dubois chair for the year 2021. Dr. Goldschmidt was born in Amsterdam, trained as a behavioural biologist in Amsterdam and Leiden and is a renowned writer on science and art. This year, the Faculty of Science and Engineering is hosting th