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Homo naledi and the Chamber of Secrets

In this lecture, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva will discuss what we know about the new early human species Homo naledi and how its discovery is not only changing science, but how we define โ€œhuman.โ€

Homo naledi and the Chamber of Secrets

In this lecture, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva will discuss what we know about the new early human species Homo naledi and how its discovery is not only changing science, but how we define โ€œhuman.โ€

From the Field: Rebecca Miller, Belgium

Dr. Rebecca Miller (Spring 2015 Grantee), with co-investigators Dr. John Stewart and Dr. Keith Wilkinson, completed this summerโ€™s Leakey Foundation funded field season at the site of Trou Alโ€™Wesse in Belgium. With an enthusiastic and meticulous team of students from the University of Liรจge, Bournemouth University and Winchester University, as well as two students doing doctoral and Masterโ€™s research on

Salvaging fossil primates from an underwater cave

Alfred L. Rosenberger In August 2009 divers of the AD Exploration Foundation discovered a well preserved skull, limb bones, ribs and vertebrae of a small extinct monkey (Antillothrix bernensis) submerged in an underwater freshwater cave in the Dominican Republic. A multi-agency team solicited the collaboration of Dr. A.L. Rosenberger of Brooklyn College to recover these remains in October 2009. In

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