Bonus: professor Karen Baab on how our views on human evolution are changing Голый землекоп
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Until 20 years ago, hominins were thought to have emerged from Africa about a million years ago. But in 1991, scientists found a Homo erectus skull dating back 1.8 million years in Dmanisi, a town in southern Georgia. It was one of the final pieces in a picture that is overturning our understanding of human evolutionary history. Karen Baab, a professor at Midwestern University with a broad background in anthropology and human evolution, was in Dmanisi expidition. We talked about what it was like, why this discovery is so significant, and how it changes the story of human evolution.
You may also listen to this episode in the closed Telegram channel of the Libo/Libo studio: https://cutt.ly/gol03botg
Until 20 years ago, hominins were thought to have emerged from Africa about a million years ago. But in 1991, scientists found a Homo erectus skull dating back 1.8 million years in Dmanisi, a town in southern Georgia. It was one of the final pieces in a picture that is overturning our understanding of human evolutionary history. Karen Baab, a professor at Midwestern University with a broad background in anthropology and human evolution, was in Dmanisi expidition. We talked about what it was like, why this discovery is so significant, and how it changes the story of human evolution.
You may also listen to this episode in the closed Telegram channel of the Libo/Libo studio: https://cutt.ly/gol03botg