Lucy 50 Monthly Lecture Series-Gary Schwartz PhD

Join ASU Institute of Human Origins researchers in 2024 for a year-long “master class” in human origins research as they illuminate the many facets of how we “became human” and what that means for the future of humans on the planet.
Gary Schwartz PhD-The importance of field and laboratory science
Paleoanthropology is known for exciting and important discoveries in remote and far-flung locations around the globe. Just as important are the discoveries made in labs using state-of-the-art computer and visual imaging technologies after those initial field discoveries. Both are critical to the science of paleoanthropology, and both are just as thrilling for the researcher. Paleoanthropologist Gary Schwartz has had his hand in both arenas-as a long-time laboratory scientist uncovering the mysteries of the evolution of human growth and development through the study of ancient teeth and in the field, most recently at the ancient cave of Drimolen, South Africa, where the earliest known skull of Homo erectus was discovered.
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