This is a first made by paleontologist Antoine Balzeau: recreate the brain of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon in 3D. The Paleo-Brain project or how to get into the head of our ancestors to better understand what is going on in ours? Replay of 02/11/25
Let us put ourselves in the head of our prehistoric ancestors, to better understand what is happening in ours! Except that there is a hell of a problem: the brain does not fossilize. How from the skull of Neanderthal Cro-Magnon or Homo Erectus, reconstructing the content, that is to say the brain of our ancestors? A major challenge, taken up by our guest on paleontologist Antoine Balzeau.
With Antoine Balzeauresearch manager at CNRS and researcher at the National Museum of Natural History. He devotes his work to the study of the morphological transformations of the first men, by taking an interest in the evolution of the skull and the brain. His work In the head of our ancestors has just been published by Belin editions.
Raphaëlle Pluskwa report on the room Néandertal At the Rond-Point Theater.
Music broadcast
– Serge Reggiani – The fossil man
– Thomas Fersen, Trio SR9 – Blasé [Playlist RFI].
