posts tagged with "Rising Star"

• Rising Star open science profile
  Pointing to an article by Lydia Pyne in Ars Technica that focuses on the process of science in our South African project.
  05 Jan 2019
• Link: Three big insights into our African origins
  I share the edited text of my recent lecture to the American Society of Human Genetics.
  03 Jan 2019
• New excavations starting at Rising Star, an article pointing to some ways to follow the expedition
  Newsweek covers the underground visualization, public and educational engagement in the fieldwork of our South African team.
  28 Feb 2018
• Reviewing the September excavation in the Rising Star cave system
  We uncover more remains of Homo naledi in the Dinaledi Chamber, including remains in unexpected places.
  05 Oct 2017
• Science Friday revisits Homo naledi with classroom resources
  National Public Radio provides some teacher resources to include Homo naledi in classroom discussions.
  29 May 2017
• Homo naledi was chipping its teeth amazingly often
  The high rate of dental damage on this small-toothed hominin gives interesting behavioral clues.
  28 May 2017
• Lichens did not grow on Homo naledi
  A provocative claim fails the test of geochemical evidence.
  02 Oct 2016
• A synopsis of our Homo naledi symposium
  American Scientist publishes a description of the ongoing research on the Dinaledi Chamber hominin collection.
  17 Jun 2016
• Deliberate deposition and Homo naledi
  The Journal of Human Evolution publishes an exchange on the context of the Dinaledi Chamber fossil material.
  16 Jun 2016
• Link: Discover magazine on South African hominin sites
  The March 2016 cover story available online, including Malapa, Rising Star, and others.
  23 Apr 2016
• A symposium on the biology and context of Homo naledi
  Our team presented a review of ongoing work on the description and analysis of the Dinaledi Chamber hominin collection at last week's AAPA meeting.
  19 Apr 2016
• Link: Lee Berger interviewed in Nautilus
  A talk touching upon Homo naledi and the process of science.
  20 Nov 2015
• Homo naledi on Wellcome Trust 10 open access facts
  The U.K. biomedical grant giant notes the immense public interest in Homo naledi in the open access journal eLife.
  29 Oct 2015
• Anonymous sexism in paleoanthropology
  An article by Robin McKie in the Observer quotes an anonymous jerk. The sexism is part of a pattern that keeps women out of paleoanthropology
  27 Oct 2015
• Upcoming Homo naledi lectures in Madison and Milwaukee
  For readers in Wisconsin, a chance to hear first-hand about the discovery.
  21 Oct 2015
• Link: Homo naledi and digital convergence in paleoanthropology
  Looking at the digital practices that underlay the discovery.
  21 Oct 2015
• Link: 'A textbook example of how to do science'
  An educator looks at the scientific method at work in paleoanthropology.
  20 Oct 2015
• Infographic: Homo naledi and the underground astronauts
  An awesome focus on the excavation team and the process of uncovering Homo naledi from the Rising Star cave.
  02 Oct 2015
• From The Conversation: 'Homo naledi: determining the age of fossils is not an exact science'
  Reflecting on the difficulty obtaining geological age estimates and the way they can mislead us about biology and relationships of fossils.
  01 Oct 2015
• From The Conversation: 'Homo naledi fossil discovery a triumph for open access and education'
  Pointing to the ways that the Rising Star Expedition team leveraged social media, public outreach, open access and data repositories to maximize the impact of our work.
  28 Sep 2015
• Is Homo naledi just a primitive version of Homo erectus?
  Tim White and Jeffrey Schwartz share a critical view of the Homo naledi fossils. I review the data.
  19 Sep 2015
• Link: Announcement of Homo naledi
  A link to the Youtube archive of the livestream from Maropeng, in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
  14 Sep 2015
• Rising Star Workshop underway
  Explaining my weeks-long blogging hiatus
  20 May 2014
• Rising Star: Updates on the week's activities
  Becca Peixotto reports from the field on cave conditions and progress.
  29 Mar 2014
• Rising Star: Targeted excavation this week
  An update on what is going on underground at Rising Star.
  26 Mar 2014
• Johannesburg update
  Checking in from Rising Star and the Wits fossil collection
  22 Feb 2014
• Paleoanthropologists wanted for Rising Star Workshop
  Looking for early career scientists to participate in the analysis of more than 1000 hominin fossil specimens.
  19 Jan 2014
• Rising Star Expedition: Into the collection
  13 Dec 2013
• Rising Star: Lee Berger tells the story
  09 Dec 2013
• Rising Star: Malapa and darkness
  27 Nov 2013
• Rising Star: The view from a caver/scientist
  23 Nov 2013
• Rising Star: What we know and don't know
  20 Nov 2013
• Photo: Setting planet over Rising Star
  18 Nov 2013
• Go into Rising Star with the cavers
  18 Nov 2013
• Rising Star: In the hot seat
  16 Nov 2013
• Setting a course for the Rising Star
  06 Nov 2013

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