Dr Keneiloe Molopyane is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey and a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer, 2021. Having begun as an underwater archaeologist, she ended up as an 'underground astronaut' squeezing through the claustrophobic passageways of South Africa's Rising Star Cave, site of a massive cache of bones belonging to hominid, Homo naledi.

MARK from Evolution Soup dives deep with Keneiloe, in a fully-illustrated interview exploring the twists and turns of the Rising Star Cave, the bones that were found there, and the tantalizing theories as to why these mysterious hominids deposited their dead there...

Original July 2021 YouTube Interview: https://bit.ly/3LaQXd8


LINKS FOR KENEILOE MOLOPYANE:

TWITTER: @Keneiloe
https://twitter.com/Keneiloe

INSTAGRAM: @Keneiloe
https://www.instagram.com/keneiloe

YouTube: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3wQwTne



WITS UNIVERSITY:

MAIN SITE: https://www.wits.ac.za/

Keneiloe's Page: https://www.is.gd/OKNHSp



Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey: @PerotMuseumCEHJ



LEE BERGER:

TWITTER: @LeeRberger

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What ignited the famed Cambrian Explosion? The majority of today's animal phyla got their start in this strange yet exciting period of time over five hundred million years ago. What triggered this radiation of life, some with shells, others with skeletons? What were the first predators? And what came before this period?

DR SHUHAI XIAO is a paleobiologist and geobiologist who studies the interactions between the biosphere and its environments at critical transitions in Earth history, particularly during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition.

MARK from Evolution Soup chats with Shuhai about the Cambrian, why it may have produced so many new animal types, and the even more mysterious period of time before the Cambrian, the period known as the Ediacaran.

Original YouTube interview:
https://youtu.be/7hzXhfajN_4



LINKS FOR SHUHAI XIAO:

SITE: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/geobiology

TWITTER: @XiaoShuhai
https://twitter.com/xiaoshuhai

LINKEDIN:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuhai-xiao-3439b915/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/shuhai.xiao

LAB: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Shuhai-Xiao-Lab


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What caused the ancestors of human beings start walking upright? The seven-million-year-long-journey started in the trees of Africa and culminates in Homo sapiens dominance of the globe. But the answers to 'why' and 'when' are still elusive.

JEREMY DESILVA is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. Jeremy ('Jerry') specializes in the locomotion of the first apes and early human ancestors. His most recent work focuses on the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.

In this Evolution Soup Special, host MARK talks with Jerry about the various theories relating to bipedality and specifically about recent hominid discoveries Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi.

ORIGINAL VIDEO https://bit.ly/3YKu6d9


LINKS FOR JEREMY DESILVA:

SITE: https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva

TWITTER: @desilva_jerry


BOOK:

First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human: https://amzn.to/3i6xZX6


SEE ALSO:

Dartmouth College: https://home.dartmouth.edu/

Dartmouth College flyover footage by Danny Katz

Lee Berger's Fossil Vault YouTube: https://bit.ly/3zGJ4V8


Boston Science Museum: https://www.mos.org/



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