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Upcoming Field School info session at Stony Brook

Posted by Scott Bjelland on November 29th, 2011. Category: Events, Field School

Stony Brook University is hosting a Turkana Basin Field School information session on Wednesday, December 7th from 1:00-2:00 in the TBI Seminar Room. ...

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Writers Conference to be held at TBI Turkwel

Posted by andrewbotsford on October 20th, 2011. Category: Events

Building on the success of last year’s January overseas Writers Conference in Florence, Italy, the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing and Literature has organized a Writers Conference and ...

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Scientists lecture on growing evidence for human evolution

Posted by Scott Bjelland on September 26th, 2011. Category: Events

Leading scientists John Shea of Stony Brook University, Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, will detail a global exploration spanning millions of years to illuminate the rise of modern humans beginning October 6, 2011. ...

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Stony Brook professor John J. Shea to speak at screening of Herzog’s ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’

Posted by Scott Bjelland on August 18th, 2011. Category: Events

STONY BROOK, N.Y. - On Monday, September 26 at 7 PM, Stony Brook University Anthropology Professor John J. Shea, a recognized expert on stone tools and early humans, will lend an insightful perspective ...

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Leakey and Johanson share stage in NYC to discuss current state of paleoanthropology

Posted by Scott Bjelland on April 12th, 2011. Category: Events, Featured

Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson shared the stage at a historic event hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. ...

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Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson to share the stage in NYC

Posted by Scott Bjelland on March 11th, 2011. Category: Events, General

Celebrating decades of groundbreaking exploration in East Africa, these renowned paleoanthropologists will make this joint appearance to discuss the overwhelming evidence for evolution in the hominid ...

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The Miocene Comes Alive in West Turkana

Posted by Scott Bjelland on December 21st, 2010. Category: Events, General

The ninth annual Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop, “Our ancestors’ ancestors: the Miocene roots of the hominin tree” took place in Kenya, August 17 – 21, 2010. The ninth annual Stony ...

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Leakeys give presentations in U.S. from east to west coasts

Posted by sarahabruzzi on November 5th, 2010. Category: Events, General

In October, Richard, Meave and Louise Leakey spent time making public appearances, lecturing, and visiting with old friends and new across the United States. In October, Richard, Meave ...

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TBI celebrates fifty years of “Zinj” in NYC

Posted by Scott Bjelland on November 9th, 2009. Category: Events, General

2009 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of Zinjanthropus in Olduvai Gorge by Mary Leakey, and The Turkana Basin Institute celebrated the event with a public symposium on ...

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First-ever cast of ‘Hobbit’ unveiled at Stony Brook University

Posted by Scott Bjelland on April 3rd, 2009. Category: Events, General

World-Renowned Anthropologist Richard Leakey Convenes Top Researchers To Discuss 'Flo,' The Enigmatic 'Hobbit' You can also view this post in Google Earth/Maps. World-Renowned ...

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