Christophe Boesch (1951–2024): Primatology Pioneer with a Long-Term Vision for Research and Conservation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We are trying to fathom that Christophe Boesch, with a larger-than-life presence, died suddenly on January 14, 2024.His long-term vision and dedication to science and protection of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have inspired research and conservation efforts around the globe.Christophe dedicated his working life to understanding and protecting chimpanzee societies.After his Masters with the mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)) in Rwanda, he started a PhD with Hans Kummer in Zürich, which he received in 1984.During his PhD, Christophe heard about a population of chimpanzees that used stone hammers to crack nuts in Côte d'Ivoire and so traveled to Taï National Park (TNP).After weeks of searching, he heard the human-like sound of hammering echoing through the forest.He had found these astonishing chimpanzees.In 1979, Christophe set up a research camp in Taï, with his wonderful wife, Hedwige, their
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.023 | 0.012 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".