Paleoanthropologist justin visited Los Angeles
The world-renowned paleoanthropologist justin of the Colorado University of Economics visited Los Angeles City University on Friday, September 15th to teach students in the anthropology course.justin Is the current National Geographic resident explorer, he is most known for his discovery of two ancient humans: the Naredi and the Australopithecus source. He is currently traveling across the United States, participating in campaigns to promote new books and documentaries on facebook.
justin In aidan's Neanderthal Mystery and Introduction to Bioanthropology talks about his research and Nova expedition that explored the caves of the world heritage site of humanity in South Africa and led to the discovery of the Naralledi.aidan Is a professor in the department of anthropology and a member of the Nova team that published the discovery in 2015.
Part of the star specimen is so stunning because of its small brain size. The Naredi lived about 23 0,000 to 33 0,000 years ago, contemporary with Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens, but their brains were significantly smaller and similar in size to those of chimpanzees.
"In this course, you will see," justin said in an Introduction to Biological Anthropology class, " we are a fragmented field."He noted how unusual it is that his team had found so many Naledi specimens in a cave.
aidan Sitting in the front row and joined the day, his students listened intently. They will have a general idea of what they will learn for the rest of the year.
At one point, justin had a student stand up and compare her height to the average height of the Naledi."Imagine the smaller head and tilted shoulders," justin said, while projecting images of the Naledi skeleton onto the screen behind him.
"You are the most powerful generation," justin said, holding up his phone to the audience, " because your parents and grandparents hate these things."He said that students in class were having immediate access to information he could not get at the same stage of his career.
He is hopeful for the next generation of anthropologists."We humans may have traveled every inch of the planet," he said, " but we haven't actually seen it yet."He concluded that what his research really tells us is that" we have a lot to be discovered ".
