Andreas Paul, 1951�2010

Andreas Paul was a biologicalanthropologist firmly rootedin evolutionary biology. His

work is widely admired for clear andfocused questions, attention to detail,and cutting-edge interpretations. Bornon July 18, 1951 in Luneburg, Ger-many, Andreas sadly lost a battle withbrain cancer on January 7, 2010. Heis survived by his wife, Frauke, andtwo sons, Jonas and Hendrik.Andreas’ career began in 1976 at

the University of Kiel with a Diplomathesis about a morphometric analy-sis of medieval animal bones. In1977, he became the first to studyBarbary macaques at the recentlyopened monkey park (Affenberg)near Salem, Germany. Thanks toAndreas’ ability to distinguish severalhundred monkeys, he documentedtheir maternal kin relationships foralmost two decades. Paternity analy-sis via the then newly developedDNA-fingerprinting completed thesedata in the early 1990s.1 Andreas fin-ished his Ph.D. in 1984 at the Univer-sity of Kiel with a thesis on ‘‘TheSocial Structure and Socialization ofSemi-Free Ranging Barbary Maca-ques.’’ This research established histies with the Institute of Anthropol-ogy at the Georg-August University,Gottingen, where, in 1996, he fin-ished his habilitation on ‘‘Sociobi-ology of Barbary Macaques.’’Andreas published more than 25

peer-reviewed journal articles, often to-gether with colleagues. The topicsincluded reproductive strategies of Bar-bary macaques,2,3 leading to his most-quoted paper on ‘‘Sexual selection andmate choice.’’4 Another research em-phasis was alloparenting,5,6 whichresulted in an article on ‘‘Male care inprimates,’’ published in this journal.7

Andreas also contributed to papers one.g., dominance, life history, culture,and infanticide.

His 1994 translation of How Mon-keys See the World8,9 won the Ger-man award for best nonfiction book.Another major team translation,Mother Nature,10 followed in 2000.11

During these productive years,Andreas also wrote one of the firstand still one of the finest Germangeneral treatises on primate behav-ior.12 His talent for being clear, con-cise, and stimulating enabled him tobring state-of-the-art evolutionarytheory to German classrooms bycomposing textbooks and manualson evolution, neurobiology, and gen-eral and behavioral biology.13

Andreas came across as quiet; soquiet, in fact, that the Affenberg direc-tor Walter Angst once humored thatwe would read much more aboutAndreas’ research than we would everhear him speak about it. Still, Andreashad a late surprise up his sleevebecause, he won the 2000 Cicero prizefor speakers, placing him with the fin-est and most eloquent minds in Ger-man politics, literary critics, science,business, and the media.

And this is how we remember him.

REFERENCES1 Kuester J, Paul A, Arnemann J. 1992. Pater-nity determination by oligonucleotide DNA fin-gerprinting in Barbary macaques (Macaca syl-vanus). In: Martin RD, Dixson AF, Wickings EJ,editors. Paternity in primates: genetic tests andtheories. Basel: Karger. p 141�154.

2 Paul A, Thommen D. 1984. Timing of birth,female reproductive success and infant sex ratioin semifree-ranging Barbary macaques (Macacasylvanus). Folia Primatol 42:2�16.

3 Paul A, Kuester J. 1987. Dominance, kinshipand reproductive value in female Barbary mac-aques (Macaca sylvanus) at Affenberg Salem.Behav Ecol Sociobiol 21:323�331.

4 Paul A. 2002. Sexual selection and matechoice. Int J Primatol 23:877�904.

5 Paul A, Kuester J. 1996. Infant handling byfemale Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) atAffenberg Salem: testing functional and evolution-ary hypotheses. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 39:133�145.

6 Paul A, Kuester J, Arnemann J. 1996. Thesociobiology of male-infant interactions in Bar-bary macaques, Macaca sylvanus. Anim Behav51:155�170.

7 van Schaik CP, Paul A. 1996. Male care in pri-mates: does it ever reflect paternity? EvolAnthropol 5:152�156.

8 Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1992. How mon-keys see the world: inside the mind of anotherspecies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

9 Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM. 1994. Wie Affen dieWelt sehen: Das Denken einer anderen Art. VogelE, Paul A, translators. Munich: Carl Hanser.

10 Hrdy SB. 1999. Mother nature: a history ofmothers, infants, and natural selection. NewYork: Pantheon Books.

11 Hrdy SB. 2000. Mutter Natur: Die weiblicheSeite der Evolution. Paul A, Vogel E, Hassel-blatt K, Reiss M, Schmalz M, translators. Ber-lin: Berlin Verlag.

12 Paul A. 1998. Von Affen und Menschen: Ver-haltensbiologie der Primaten. Darmstadt: Wis-senschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

13 Paul A. 2004. Biologie Heute Entdecken.Hamburg: Schroedel Verlag.

His ‘‘G€ottingen peer group’’:

Carola Borries, Stony BrookAndreas Koenig, Stony Brook

Jutta Kuester, G€ottingenVolker Sommer, LondonEllen Vogel, G€ottingenEckart Voland, GiessenPaul Winkler, G€ottingen

VVC 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.Published online in Wiley InterScience

(www.interscience.wiley.com).DOI 10.1002/evan.20256

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Evolutionary Anthropology 19:83 (2010)