At 131 pages this is all the updated information about human related fossils, up to the. Visit the Conversations website for more of Richard Fidler's interviews. Human Evolution by Bernard Wood is just the facts and only the facts.

To subscribe to the Conversations podcast, paste into your podcasting application or visit our podcasting page. You can either listen to each Conversations interview by clicking on the audio or you can download each interview as an mp3 by right-clicking on the blue heading under the audio. All this to say that I appreciated Condemi and Savatier’s ability to stay succinct and relevant. 95-96 In my opinion, we just didn’t need to know every detail of how the volcano preserved the footprints, just that it did. Listen to Richard's conversation with archaeologist Michael Westaway from 2012. Bernard Wood, Human Evolution: A Brief Insight, pp. Journal of Human Evolution 46 (2), 119-162, 2004. Bernard Wood explains why the announcement of 'handy man' in April 1964 threw the field of hominin evolution into a turmoil that continues to this day. He's been working on the tantalising puzzle of human origins ever since.īernard is in Australia as part of the Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellows Program. University Professor of Human Origins, George Washington University. He travelled with the expedition to Kenya's Lake Rudolf.

Bernard is a Professor of Human Origins and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University.Īs a medical student in the 1960s, Bernard was invited to join Richard Leakey's expedition into Eastern Africa in search of the fossilised remains of our human ancestors.

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