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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 'unde
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 wit
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.JER
The Meg! Did it really exist? (Spoiler alert: it did). This giant of the Miocene seas has been of keen interest to paleontologists for decades. It's true dimensions have never been known until recently.JACK COOPER is a PhD student working on th
Evolution is a marvel, but - bad backs? Crooked teeth? Allergies? What gives?ALEX BEZZERIDES is a professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Idaho, where he teaches a wide range of biology classes, from human anatomy and physiology to
DR MOHAMED NOOR is a Professor of Biology at Duke University involved in evolutionary genetics research , looking into how genetic changes contribute to the formation of new species. A keen Star Trek aficionado, he is the author of the book Liv
DR LARISA DESANTIS is a conservation biologist at Vanderbilt University and vertebrate paleontologist in the department of biological sciences. Larisa studies fossil mammals as a way of determining how they responded to ancient climate change.M
They were the most successful hominids of all time, existing on earth for almost two million years and leaving fossil evidence across much of the globe. From Africa to the Caucasus to the Far East, Homo erectus travelled far and left an indelib
Were neanderthals just dumb brutes waiting for extinction? The latest research says they were anything but dimwitted. They had culture, forethought, and emotion - just like us.REBECCA WRAGG SYKES is a palaeolithic archaeologist and honorary fel
The search for the origin of life is nothing new. Abiogenesis - life from non life - has fascinated and frustrated science for countless years. But what if we've been going about it the wrong way?PROFESSOR LEE CRONIN holds the Regius chair of c
They lived along our ancestors and were very much like them - but then vanished from history. What is the story of the genus Paranthropus and its three fascinating species?ALEXIS WILLIAMS is a PhD student in the Center for the Advanced Study of
In 1983, an exquisitely-preserved fossil of a new species of primate, Darwinius masillae, was unearthed in Germany's Messel Pit. The media hailed the 47-million-year-old specimen as the missing link.Is Darwinius (aka 'Ida') the so-called missin
Hobbits were REAL? Really? Actually ... yes.DR KAREN BAAB is a biological anthropologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Arizona and her main interests are the extinct relatives of humans and wh
What is race and ethnicity?KATE KELLER is a biological anthropologist who teaches introductory biological anthropology and human variation classes to undergraduates. She enjoys taking difficult, controversial, or esoteric topics and explaining
How and why did reptiles start to fly? Dr Corwin Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. Along with studying the origin of birds and flight, Dr Sullivan researches the diversity, evolution
Were the Dire Wolves seen on Game of Thrones simply myth?ANGELA PERRI BA (Hons), PhD is an archaeologist based at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the nature of human-environmental interactions by analyzing early relationships bet
A deep dive into dating methods, dinosaurs, and Deep Time with paleontologist, Michael Hudgins!Michael is a systematics and evolution masters student studying palaeontology at the University of Alberta, Canada and his main research centers on l
Dumb as a Dodo - or was the extinct flightless bird actually smart?EUGENIA GOLD is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department of Suffolk University Boston, USA and currently a postdoctoral researcher & instructor in the Department of Ana
ARIEL MARCY - is an evolutionary biologist and educational game designer at the University of Queensland. During her PhD, Ariel will start to untangle the question of why marsupials are less diverse than placentals by studying Australian rodent
What was enigmatic dinosaur Spinosaurus really like? NIZAR IBRAHIM is a vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist based at the University of Detroit Mercy (USA), where he is an Assistant Professor of Biology teaching courses in anatom
BRIANA POBINER is a Research Scientist and Museum Educator in the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution and her fields of interest include paleoanthropology and the evolution of the human diet.MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Br
Primates evolved in Africa - so how did monkeys get all the way to South America? To make things even more intriguing, a fossil an extinct ancestor of modern monkeys has now been found in the New World. ANDREW HOLMES is a paleoanthropologist &
LAURA VAN HOLSTEIN is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge who has recently published her revolutionary research on the role of subspecies in evolution, authenticating one of Charles Darwin's theories.Laura studied for her BA from 201
SPECIAL EPISODE! In 1996 a skull and skeleton were stumbled upon near the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State. What followed were years of speculation, assumptions, legal battles and contention. The remains of the 9000-year-old Pale
J. G. M. 'Hans' Thewissen, Ph. D. Anatomy Professor at Ohio University, studies fossil cetaceans in order to answer questions about the evolution of whales -- in particular, about how whales originated from land animals.MARK from Evolution Sou
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