Madelaine Böhme Explained

Birth Place:Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Nationality:German
Education:Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
Alma Mater:Leipzig University
Discipline:Palaeontologist
Sub Discipline:Palaeoclimatology
Workplaces:University of Tübingen

Madelaine Böhme (born 1967) is a German palaeontologist and professor of palaeoclimatology at the University of Tübingen.[1]

Life

Böhme was born in 1967 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She studied at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and Leipzig University, completing her doctorate there in 1997 and habilitation at LMU Munich in 2003. In 2009, she became professor of terrestrial palaeoclimatology in Tübingen.[2]

Scientific discoveries

Work published in 2017 by a team including Böhme established that Graecopithecus freybergi fossils found in Greece were 7.2 million years old and the species was hominin.[3] [4]

In 2019, Böhme and her team were the first to describe Danuvius guggenmosi, an extinct species of great apes with adaptations for bipedalism that lived 11.6 million years ago.[5]

In 2022, alongside Gerald Mayr and Thomas Lechner, Böhme described Allgoviachen tortonica, a new genus and species of anatid bird from the Hammerschmiede clay pits of Bavaria, Germany.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Madelaine Böhme, Paläoklimatologin. Video interview. alpha-Forum. Bayerischer Rundfunk. 26 July 2017. de. 11 November 2019.
  2. Neu berufen: Madelaine Böhme. University of Tübingen. Michael. Seifert. 2010. de. 11 November 2019.
  3. Web site: Scientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans. phys.org. University of Toronto. 22 May 2017. 11 November 2019.
  4. Jochen. Fuss. Nikolai. Spassov. David R.. Begun. Madelaine. Böhme. 2017. Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe. PLOS One. 12 . 5 . e0177127 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0177127. 28531170 . 5439669 . 2017PLoSO..1277127F . free.
  5. M.. Böhme. N.. Spassov. J.. Fuss. A.. Tröscher. A. S.. Deane. J.. Prieto. U.. Kirscher. T.. Lechner. D. R.. Begun. 2019. A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans. Nature. 575 . 7783 . 489–493 . 10.1038/s41586-019-1731-0. 31695194 . 2019Natur.575..489B . 207888156 .
  6. Mayr . Gerald . Lechner . Thomas . Böhme . Madelaine . 2022-03-07 . Nearly complete leg of an unusual, shelduck-sized anseriform bird from the earliest late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Germany) . Historical Biology . 35 . 4. 465–474 . 10.1080/08912963.2022.2045285 . 247310405 . 0891-2963. free .