Case Western Reserve University students are invited to events featuring paleoanthropologist F.K. Manthi from the National Museums of Kenya and U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Free lunch will be offered today (Oct. 15) from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 210. Fredrick Kyalo Manthi is senior research scientist and head of antiquities, sites and monuments at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi.
During this event, Manthi will talk about how having a life in science should be balanced with the importance of assuring high quality in your life outside science. This event is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Gundzik Endowment. RSVP by emailing haufe@case.edu.
Manthi also will give two additional paid talks on campus as part of the Origins Science Scholars series offered by the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program and Institute for the Science of Origins.
The Origins Science Scholars lectures are open to the public and include dinner with the speaker. Students can attend these events for free without dinner.
Register for the Origins Science Scholars events.
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“Early Hominin Evolution and the Lomekwi Baby: Exciting New Fossils from Turkana, Kenya”
Oct. 15
Manthi will discuss new fossils of human ancestors who lived over 3 million years ago that his team discovered in the Lomekwi area near Kenya’s Lake Turkana, site of the earliest stone tools ever found. Are these the toolmakers? An excellent specimen of a juvenile individual reveals tantalizing secrets of how our ancestors lived just as the brain began to expand.
“The Origin of Our Species: New Fossils from Turkana, Kenya Unite Us All”
Oct. 22
In this talk, Manthi will discuss the emergence of our species. Fossils of early human ancestors millions of years old, such as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) and the Turkana Boy (Homo erectus), are familiar to experts and enthusiasts alike. But what about the final step that produced Homo sapiens?
Manthi’s team has discovered the earliest representatives of our species near Kenya’s border with Ethiopia. Africa is where we emerged, took on our modern form, invented art and complex tool technologies, and spent our first 200,000 years, before a few small bands ventured into Europe, Asia, and eventually the Americas. Striking new fossils demonstrate that all human beings on Earth today -despite our minor differences- are truly brothers and sisters.