Category Archives: Paleoanthropology

The coolest things in the world

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Mukei

Ok, this … is … thrilling. Not quite two years ago, on October 6, 2013, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of the National Geographic Society and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa posted an odd, tantalizing ad on facebook: Dear Colleagues – … Continue reading →

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They stopped, had a quick picnic, and carried on

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Mukei

John Hawks is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In winter of 2014 he offered a 7-week MOOC (“massively open online course”) through Coursera, entitled Human Evolution: Past and Future. Superbly done, offered for free, the course included … Continue reading →

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Rising Star Expedition’s final day

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Mukei

The Rising Star Expedition is a joint project of the National Geographic Society and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Originally expected to be a brief expedition to recover a single partial hominid skeleton from a newly discovered … Continue reading →

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