Eastern Africa’s Earliest Livestock Herders Adapted to a Changing Climate
An international team of researchers has discovered remarkable dietary variation among eastern Africa’s first pastoralists — people who raised and consumed livestock and their products. Early herders living around Lake...Read More
Pole Position: Weisen Shen Aims to Make Stony Brook an Antarctic Force
A Stony Brook University research team has begun their journey to the South Pole to probe the effects of global changing, the third and final trip supported by a National...Read More
New Fossil of an Ancient Human Relative Shows It Had Strong Grip, Human-Like Dexterity
For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its extremely powerful jaws and massive teeth, could make and use stone tools....Read More
Tara Smiley Wins NSF CAREER Award to Unlock Small-Mammal Fossil Record
Tara Smiley, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Ecology and Evolution, has received the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her project, “Unlocking the small-mammal...Read More
Setting Her Global Sights on Helping At-Risk Populations
To Isabelle Loop ’21, strangers are only friends she hasn’t met yet. And “strange” places are only places where she will meet them. It’s how the biochemistry major from rural Spencer,...Read More
Meave Leakey’s Memoir Explores Her Own Past and Mankind’s
The memoir tells the exciting tale of Meave Leakey's quest for our human origins and the challenges she has faced as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field.
