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TBI to offer field school in the Turkana Basin

TBI to offer field school in the Turkana Basin

Beginning spring semester of 2011, the Turkana Basin Institute will offer a full-semester Field Education Program at Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, through Stony Brook University’s Study Abroad program.

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Recent images from TBI Turkwel campus

Recent images from TBI Turkwel campus

The construction is ongoing at the TBI Turkwel campus. Six self contained cottages are being built, the first of which is now complete. The remainder should be finished in the...

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New Australopithecus sediba hominin fossils featured on 60 MINUTES

New Australopithecus sediba hominin fossils featured on 60 MINUTES

Richard Leakey joins other scientists in discussing Lee Berger's amazing new "treasure trove" of Australopithecus sediba fossils

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Big Funding Boost for TBI

Big Funding Boost for TBI

On 19th September 2009 through the generosity of four extraordinary friends of TBI, Ian Telfer, Nancy Burke, and Jussi and Sally Westergren, a successful event was held to raise funds...

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27.08.2010

TBI postdoc receives grant for Holocene research in Turkana

Posted in: TBI Posts
TBI postdoctoral fellow Amanuel Beyin recently received a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation in the amount of $20,000 to conduct field research in the western Turkana Basin region this fall.

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16.07.2010

From Area 129

Posted in: Koobi Fora Research Project
The excavation crew have completed the first excavation after four weeks of work. They have now moved to a new site where fossil hunter Robert Moru found a hominid femur last year.

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04.08.2010 08:08

Water Tank Construction Begins

Posted in: Local Community Outreach
As a continuation of the Kijito water pump repair project, two 5,000 litre water tanks in Ileret are being installed to supply more community members with water.

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30.08.2010

fossil hunters get down to anatomy class

Posted in: Fossil Hunters
Fossil hunters took a break today to attend an anatomy class that was no doubt done in style.

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Featured News:

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.

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Fossil Find Sparks Debate on Primate Origins

Pieces of ancient primates can still pack a surprising punch. Consider a 37-million-year-old lower jaw that still sports many of its teeth and was found in Africa by paleontologist Erik Seiffert of Stony Brook University in New York and his colleagues. This newly unearthed creature had skeletal features that resembled those of higher primates, but it didn’t belong to the lineage that led to higher primates, Seiffert’s team reports in the Oct. 22 Nature.

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Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory

The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa.

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Ardipithecus material unveiled

ScienceNOW Daily News - Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor--and it is full of surprises.

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More Human Evolution:

Europe's First Farmers Were Immigrants: Replaced Their Stone Age Hunter-gatherer Forerunners

Mandala Hominid Footprints Puts Tanga On World Map

Hominid Footprints to Be 'Laid to Rest' in Kingly Manner

Man and maps go way back

"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?

'Hobbit' Skull Study Finds Hobbit Is Not Human

A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree

More Prehistory:

Skull of pliosaur that 'could have bitten a car in half' found on Britain's Jurassic Coast

'Giraffe of the Mesozoic' Discovered

Seal bones found on shores of Lake Champlain

Duck-bill’s fossilized prints offer glimpse of New Mexico paleoenvironment

Dinosaurs are colorful, Yale researchers find

Beach fossil thought to be 20-million-year-old tortoise

Molecular Decay Of Enamel-specific Gene In Toothless Mammals Supports Theory Of Evolution