Philippe Janvier

Philippe Janvier is a French paleontologist specializing in Paleozoic vertebrates, particularly the early evolution from jawless agnathans to jawed gnathostomes. He works at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, has authored numerous books and scientific papers on the subject, and was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 2014. His research includes groundbreaking discoveries, such as the exceptional preservation of a 300-million-year-old chondrichthyan brain with colleague Alan Pradel.