Last month, Robin McKie at The Guardian posted an article titled, "Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution." In it, he summarizes the Lucy discovery by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. Chris Stringer from the Natural...

Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins (ASU IHO) recently hosted the "What was Lucy's Impact on Human Origins? Lucy 50th Anniversary Symposium." Zeray spoke in the morning session, presenting "Lucy's children and human origins." His abstract reads...

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. It is a professional and highly engaging international program. In just three short minutes (180 seconds!) and with a single...

Two of our students, Laura and Maddie, were able to share their research at the Field Museum's UChicagoGRAD Research Speaks in April, a new event established this year. This single day program grants students the opportunity to discuss their research with the general...

The Alemseged Lab team recently made it over to Los Angeles, California, to attend both the 2024 Paleoanthropology Society meeting (PSM) the 93rd annual American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting (AABA), as well as to meet up with others in the field....