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Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged’s TEDtalk

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Yesterday, I got sent a video of paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged‘s talk at this year’s TED conference. Zeresenay AlemsegedLast 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:

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.

Written by Kambiz Kamrani

September 18, 2007 at 1:26 pm

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  1. [...] 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 [...]

  2. [...] 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 [...]

  3. [...] 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 [...]

  4. 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

    Ricardo Tovar

    April 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm

  5. Hi Dr. Zersenay , I wish you all the best. i proud of you my childhood friend , this is Mulugeta Hadush Weldu ; Ph.D. fellow at Addis Abeba University. with E- mail : mulaxum2005@Yahoo.com Or mulaxum2005@gmail.com. Please respond as soon as you received it

    Mulugeta Hadis Weldu

    December 4, 2011 at 11:15 pm


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