Yesterday, I got sent a video of paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged’s talk at this year’s TED conference. 
Last year we all got introduced to Zeresenay Alemseged when he and colleagues published their report on Selam a.k.a. Dikika fossil. Selam is a 3.3 million year old Australopithecus afarensis child.Here’s some of the stuff I wrote about that fossil:
- Little ‘Lucy’ fossil found
- A critique of the juvenile Dikika fossil publication
- A faint whisper of reason on Dikika
In the TEDtalk, Zeresenay talks about looking for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia’s badlands, what he has found, and how Africa holds the clues to what makes us human. TED has a lot content on his talk, and why you should listen to him.
4 Comments
September 20, 2007 at 3:15 am
[...] Dikika fossil. Selam is a 3.3 million year old Australopithecus afarensis child. Remote Central and Anthropology.net both provide interesting and thorough discussions of the video clip, as well as the context in [...]
July 8, 2008 at 10:20 pm
[...] Academy of Sciences’ Zeresenay Alemseged Jump to Comments Zeresenay Alemseged is no stranger to this blog. I mentioned his new position as the chairman of anthropology at the California [...]
July 30, 2008 at 10:17 am
[...] it is important for the rest of the world. I’ve shared one of these talks with you before, Zeresenay Alemseged’s. In this year’s conference, Louise Leakey, of the Leakey family lineage of [...]
April 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Hello i was watching the conferences about the origins of humanity 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.
Universidad Internacional, Cuernavaca Mor. México