Jean-Baptiste Rames

Jean-Baptiste Rames (26 December 1832 – 22 August 1894) was a French pharmacist, naturalist, and geologist who worked on the geology of Cantal and produced a geological map that was exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878.

He studied at the town school before training under the botanist Henri Lecoq.

He then studied the natural sciences, geology, and chemistry in Toulouse and explored the Cantal mountains.

[1] He followed the ideas of Jean-Étienne Guettard who proposed that the Cantal mountains were the remnants of a single large volcano.

He discovered flints at Puy Courny which triggered debate on the presence of ancestral humans in the Miocene (and even a species Homosimius ramesii was proposed by Gabriel de Mortillet[2]).