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Ethiopian paleoanthropologist and Leakey Foundation grantee Zeray Alemseged and his research team uncovered an almost-complete skeleton of a three-year-old juvenile Australopithecus afarensis in sediments dated to 3.3 million years ago. In this talk, Alemseged discusses how hominins looked at a young age and addresses questions regarding body proportion, life history, stature, and body size of infants of our earliest ancestors. He also explores how this discovery adds substantially to our knowledge of the anatomy, behavior, locomotor repertoire, growth and developments of a species placed at a critical time of our evolutionary history.
“Learning from Juvenile Hominin Fossils” was presented at the Field Museum on 4/12/2008 as part of The Leakey Foundation’s Speaker Series on Human Origins in partnership with the the Field Museum.
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Ethiopian paleoanthropologist and Leakey Foundation grantee Zeray Alemseged and his research team uncovered an almost-complete skeleton of a three-year-old juvenile Australopithecus afarensis in sediments dated to 3.3 million years ago. In this talk, Alemseged discusses how hominins looked at a young age and addresses questions regarding body proportion, life history, stature, and body size of infants of our earliest ancestors. He also explores how this discovery adds substantially to our knowledge of the anatomy, behavior, locomotor repertoire, growth and developments of a species placed at a critical time of our evolutionary history.
“Learning from Juvenile Hominin Fossils” was presented at the Field Museum on 4/12/2008 as part of The Leakey Foundation’s Speaker Series on Human Origins in partnership with the the Field Museum.
Sponsored by:
Wells Fargo Bank
Members of The Leakey Foundation
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