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Dr. Lawrence Martin assumes full-time directorship of TBI

Posted by Scott Bjelland on January 12th, 2012. Category: Featured, General

Stony Brook University's Dr. Lawrence Martin has agreed to serve, on a full-time basis, as Director of the Turkana Basin Institute. Martin has been at the heart of TBI activities since its creation ...

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Louise Leakey and Autodesk launch 3D fossils website

Posted by Scott Bjelland on November 30th, 2011. Category: Featured, General

Dr. Louise Leakey (TBI, Stony Brook University) and 3D software company Autodesk have teamed up with the National Museums of Kenya to create an ongoing interactive showcase famous fossil discoveries from ...

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New evidence from Lake Turkana suggests humans shaped stone axes 1.8 million years ago

Posted by Scott Bjelland on August 31st, 2011. Category: General, Headlines

A new study suggests that Homo erectus, a precursor to modern humans, was using advanced tool-making methods in East Africa 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought. ...

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Savannas accompanied human evolution for six million years

Posted by Scott Bjelland on August 5th, 2011. Category: General

University of Utah scientists used chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover – in effect, shade – and found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where human ancestors and their ape relatives evolved during the past 6 million years. ...

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Scientists from around the world attend tenth Human Evolution Workshop

Posted by Scott Bjelland on August 1st, 2011. Category: Featured, General

Scientists from around the world are arriving at TBI's Turkwel research facility in northern Kenya for the tenth annual Stony Brook University Human Evolution Workshop, held August 2-6. The workshop, ...

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Tenth Stony Brook Human Evolution Workshop: Geological History of the Turkana Basin

Posted by Scott Bjelland on May 31st, 2011. Category: Featured, General

The Tenth annual SBU Human Evolution workshop, entitled "Geological History of the Turkana Basin" will be held from August 2-6, 2011 at TBI's Turkwel research facility in Kenya. ...

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TBI awards new graduate fellowships

Posted by Scott Bjelland on May 31st, 2011. Category: General

The Turkana Basin Institute is pleased to announce it has awarded two new graduate fellowships. Natasha Gownaris is a second year doctoral student at the Stony Brook University School of Marine and ...

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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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Stony Brook scientist revisits traditional view of human origins

Posted by Scott Bjelland on March 7th, 2011. Category: Featured, General

Professor John Shea presents evidence that early human behavior was no less complex than that of living humans. Stone points dating to at least 104,000 years ago from Omo Kibish, Ethiopia. These ...

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More on the Ileret water pipeline

Posted by Louise Leakey on February 24th, 2011. Category: General

Another update from Ileret with images and text by Fraser Smith. This is the progress report on the water pipeline and the generator house that is being built near the borehole. We had decided ...

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