TBI: The Turkana Basin Institute

A new and exciting research program, which addresses the entire span of human evolution, is planned in the Omo-Turkana Basin of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.

Extending back in time from modern humans; through the first pastoralists and pottery makers; the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens; early diversity in the genus Homo; and back to our earliest ancestors, the geological deposits in this large lake basin span an exceptionally long stretch of time.

Older sediments extend this record even farther back to the origin of monkeys and apes, including the earliest known apes, and even to a time, unknown elsewhere in Africa, when dinosaurs dominated the fauna. Read more »

 

 

Support TBI
To support the Turkana Basin Institute, please access the University's Online Giving Form. Under the heading "Choose Where You'd Like Your Gift to Go," check the last box–"School or College or Program [specify]"–and type "Turkana" in the adjacent field.

Save the Date: Human Evolution Symposium
Convened by Richard Leakey, the 4th Annual Human Evolution Symposium is a full-day event featuring many of the foremost scholars in the field. The Symposium will be held on the campus of Stony Brook University on September 25, 2007. For more information, see the Symposium Web site.