Tim D. White, Professor of Integrative Biology, Department of Integrative Biology and Human Evolution Research Center, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, at UC Berkeley, will present a lecture titled "Our African Origins" on Monday, December 7, at 3:30 p.m. in the HUB Auditorium.
Dr. White recently received world-wide publicity for his research on "Ardi". In 1994, a research team led by Dr. White; Berhane Asfaw, a paleoanthropologist and former director of the National Museum of Ethiopia; and Giday WoldeGabriel, a geologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the discovery of the first fossils of a new human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus("Ardi"). The researchers presented tantalizing evidence that the species was a biped living in woodland conditions more than a million years before the famous "Lucy" fossil of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The research was documented in the October 2, 2009, special issue of the journal Science,and revealed that our earliest ancestors underwent a previously unknown phase of evolution, shedding new light on the nature of the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.
More information on Dr. White can be found at http://ib.berkeley.edu/research/interests/research_profile.php?person=245
Dr. White recently received world-wide publicity for his research on "Ardi". In 1994, a research team led by Dr. White; Berhane Asfaw, a paleoanthropologist and former director of the National Museum of Ethiopia; and Giday WoldeGabriel, a geologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the discovery of the first fossils of a new human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus("Ardi"). The researchers presented tantalizing evidence that the species was a biped living in woodland conditions more than a million years before the famous "Lucy" fossil of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The research was documented in the October 2, 2009, special issue of the journal Science,and revealed that our earliest ancestors underwent a previously unknown phase of evolution, shedding new light on the nature of the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.
More information on Dr. White can be found at http://ib.berkeley.edu/research/interests/research_profile.php?person=245
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