Like a number of others I received a heads up on the Zeresenay Alemseged talk on Ted.Com. In the speech Zeresenay Alemseged gives a quick overview of the discovery of Dikika 1 - nicknamed Selam - covering much the points that he made in the Nature article. The big difference being this speech was written with the non-specialist in mind. I was impressed, Zeresenay reveals himself to be a good speaker and I can see him developing into a gifted spokesman for the paleoanthropological community. I was especially touched by his plea at the end. You can see that for yourself below.
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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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Zeresenay Alemseged on Ted.Com
Category: Anthropology • Paleoanthropology
Posted on: September 18, 2007 10:53 PM, by afarensis, FCD
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Thank you for the wonderful resource as well as the talk.
Posted by: Oldfart | September 19, 2007 10:43 AM
Hello i was watching the conferences about "the origins of humanity" of Zeresenay Alemseged on ted.com, and i would like to comment that along some of my fellows we got a project related with your thread, it´s an webpage that works as a link to bound several families across the world to connect citizens of latinoamericans countries mostly, i hope for your answer to send more information of this project.
att. Ricardo Tovar Rodríguez.
ricardo_tovarr@hotmail.com
Universidad Internacional, Cuernavaca Mor. México
Posted by: Ricardo Tovar | April 14, 2009 7:56 PM