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Lee Berger announcing the discovery at the Leakey Memorial Conference. Photo by John Griffin.
Viyang Hao
15 Jun 2023
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Historic Hominin Discovery Is Announced at Leakey Conference

A historic discovery about an extinct human species that may have deliberately buried its dead and carved meaningful symbols in caves was announced at the weeklong conference honoring the life...
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Louise Leakey, a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, chair of the international advisory board of the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project, delivered the keynote lecture of the Leakey Memorial Conference on June 5. Photos by John Griffin.
Viyang Hao
15 Jun 2023
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Turkana Lecture Kicks Off Richard Leakey Memorial Conference

Louise Leakey delivers keynote, “Six Decades — The Search for Fossils at Lake Turkana” Richard Leakey dedicated his life to unraveling the mysteries of our ancient past. Through his extensive...
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Elizabeth Slattery
21 Apr 2023
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New Research Forces Scientists to Rethink Ape Evolution

Stony Brook Professor Part of International Paleontology Collaboration Re-assessing an Ancient Ape Fossil Because living apes easily reach eatable fruit in trees with their upright bodies, anthropologists have long thought...
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Leakey featured
lzawie
03 Jan 2022
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Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, Chair of Turkana Basin Institute, Dies at 77

World-renowned paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard E. Leakey, a professor in the Stony Brook University Department of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the Turkana Basin...
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Jonah Ratsimbazafy
lzawie
29 Oct 2021
1

World Lemur Day Commemorative Stamps Feature SBU Alum Jonah Ratsimbazafy

  World Lemur Day is October 29, and it was celebrated in Madagascar with the issuance of six new lemur postage stamps, including two honoring Stony Brook University alumnus Jonah...
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Global Standards Created For The Ethics Of Ancient DNA Research
lzawie
20 Oct 2021
0

Global Standards Created for the Ethics of Ancient DNA Research

A team of scholars, including SBU's Elizabeth Sawchuk, has articulated a set of ethical guidelines regarding aDNA as a way to govern such research globally.
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