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The Geological Sciences department will be hosting a seminar on human evolution and climate in east Africa presented by Dr. Catherine Beck (Hamilton College) as a part of the Salem State University Darwin Festival. This talk will be on Tuesday, February 16 at 11 am and presented both in-person in Veterans Hall and streamed online.
"Reconstructing Environments of the Past: In what conditions did our ancestors survive and thrive?”
From the earliest primates to modern humans, our history as a species has been characterized by environmental change and variability. Through studying the geological record we can reconstruct the past environments associated with fossil primates and hominins. This allows us to build and test hypotheses about how climatic and tectonic processes shaped the eastern African ecosystems in which our species evolved and ultimately migrated from to colonize the globe.