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- Pieces to the Australopithecus puzzle
- Hill crawls and surface sweeps are very laborious survey techniques designed to recover every tiny piece of fossil on the ground. At the Pliocene locality at South Turkwel, the crew was tasked with finding additional Australopithecus remains. The first species in that genus, Australopithecus anamensis, is possibly ancestral to modern humans and bipedal in ability but uncommitted to that form of...
- Traveling back to the Frontier
- Traveling back again to the Turkana Basin felt great. The Basin is a frontier on many fronts. It is home to pastoralists, who eke out a living from a region characterized by arid scrubland and desert. It also represents the leading edge of scientific research into the origins of humans and the evolutionary history of modern fauna. Nowhere else on the planet is the fossil record of the Pliocene...