2022 Media Coverage


Multimedia

Has the rate of human evolution slowed down in recent days?
ABC.net.au Overnights
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/overnights/evolution/13904048
Radio interview with Kaye Reed

Center for Planetary Health—McCarthy
04.20.2022
https://vimeo.com/user122551336/review/702146361/35affbad7f

ISTB7 Building Dedication
https://video.ibm.com/recorded/131669750
04.19.2022

Travel and Learn with Human Origins Scientists
04.2022
https://vimeo.com/694673633/1884de66aa

Donald Johanson Remarks at the NASA Lucy Mission Launch
10.2021
https://vimeo.com/user5956652


ASU News

Still serving: Army Ranger to anthropologist, veteran PhD student aims to help others
11.03.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20221103-still-serving-army-ranger-anthropologist-veteran-phd-student-aims-help-others

Study looks at human cultural adaptation and the effects of ancient climate change
11.01.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20221101-study-looks-human-cultural-adaptation-and-effects-ancient-climate-change

ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change welcomes 3 new faculty members
08.31.2022
Helen Davis announcement
https://news.asu.edu/20220831-university-news-asu-school-human-evolution-and-social-change-welcomes-3-new-faculty-members

Communication by chimpanzees improves cooperative hunting success
07.29.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220729-communication-chimpanzees-improves-cooperative-hunting-success 

Giant pandas show an evolutionary turn of the wrist
06.30.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220630-giant-pandas-show-evolutionary-turn-wrist

Bonobo behavior hints at model for evolution of human peacemaking
06.21.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220621-bonobo-behavior-hints-model-evolution-human-peacemaking

ASU Regents Professor Joan Silk among new class of National Academy of Science members
05.06.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220506-asu-regents-professor-joan-silk-among-new-class-national-academy-sciences-members

A tribute to ASU paleoanthropologist William H. Kimbel
05.06.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220506-tribute-asu-professor-and-paleoanthropologist-william-h-kimbel

Regents Professor Anne Stone receives 2022 Guggenheim Fellow award
04.26.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220426-university-news-regents-professor-anne-stone-receives-2022-guggenheim-fellow-award

Newly dedicated Roskind Great Hall honors donors’ ongoing commitment
04.21.2021
https://news.asu.edu/20220421-university-news-newly-dedicated-roskind-great-hall-honors-donors-ongoing-commitment

New ASU research building named in honor of sustainability donors
04.19.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220418-university-news-new-asu-research-building-named-honor-sustainability-donors

ISTB7: A building bridging our past to our thriving future
03.10.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220310-creativity-asu-istb7-architecture-ancient-past-thriving-future

A tough early life can have long-lasting effects
02.03.2022 
https://news.asu.edu/20220203-study-tough-early-life-can-have-long-lasting-effects 

AAAS honors ASU Regents Professor Joan Silk as a lifetime fellow
01.26.2022
https://news.asu.edu/20220126-aaas-honors-asu-regents-professor-joan-silk-lifetime-fellow

AAAS honors 7 ASU faculty as lifetime fellows
01.26.2022 
https://news.asu.edu/20220126-university-news-aaas-honors-7-asu-faculty-lifetime-fellows


External Media Coverage

Evolutionary history shows how pandas survived for centuries on bamboos alone
Nature World News
07.01.2022
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/51656/20220701/no-legal-justification-reports-says-about-denmarks-covid-related-mass-mink-cull.htm#comment

Pandas evolved their most perplexing feature at least 6 million years ago
Erie News Now
06.30.2022
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/46796981/pandas-evolved-their-most-perplexing-feature-at-least-6-million-years-ago

Miocene-period giant panda already had enigmatic extra ‘thumb’
Sci News
06.30.2022
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/ailurarctos-extra-thumb-10957.html

How pandas survive on bamboo: Evolutionary history
Science Daily
06.30.2022
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220630114456.htm

How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could humans live through one?
The Conversation
06.27.2022
Denise Su, author
https://theconversation.com/how-many-ice-ages-has-the-earth-had-and-could-humans-live-through-one-179360

ASU dedicates new Center for Planetary Health
Spaces 4 Learning.com
04.28.2022
https://spaces4learning.com/articles/2022/04/28/asu-center-for-planetary-health.aspx

Southwest on the scene: March 2022
ENR.com
04.26.2022
https://www.enr.com/articles/53989-southwest-on-the-scene-march-2022

ASU dedicates $192M Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 7
AZ Big Media
04.20.2022
https://azbigmedia.com/real-estate/asu-dedicates-192m-interdisciplinary-science-and-technology-building-7/

Elephant tramples Colombian researcher to death in Uganda
Reuters
04.12.2022
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/elephant-tramples-colombian-researcher-death-uganda-2022-04-12/
Graduate student Sebastian Ramirez Amaya working at Kibale National Park in Uganda

180 scientists, writers, scholars, and artists honored across 51 fields
Guggenheim Foundation
04.07.2022
https://www.gf.org/news/foundation-news/announcing-the-2022-guggenheim-fellows/

Discoverer of early human ancestor will speak at UCM in March
KSISRadio.com
02.22.2022
https://ksisradio.com/discoverer-of-early-human-ancestor-lucy-will-speak-at-ucm-in-march/

View from Mars Hill: Lowell, Orpheum set to host a Night of Discovery
Arizona Daily Sun
01.29.2022
https://azdailysun.com/opinion/columnists/view-from-mars-hill-lowell-orpheum-set-to-host-a-night-of-discovery

New ASU building puts science front and center
ENR.com
01.10.2022
https://www.enr.com/articles/53379-new-asu-building-puts-science-front-and-center

Top 10 discoveries of 2021
Archaeology Magazine
January/February 2022
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/451-2201/features/10183-top-10-discoveries-of-2021
Contrabandiers research noted


Noted and Quoted

This day in History: November 24, “Lucy” fossils discovered
History.com
11.24.2022
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lucy-fossil-discovered

Paabo wins Nobel Prize for work on human evolution
The Lancet
10.15.2022
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01981-X/fulltext
Anne Stone mention

What ancient teeth in cave can tell us about Bronze Age collapse
Discovery Magazine
10.11.2022
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-ancient-teeth-in-cave-can-tell-us-about-the-bronze-age-collapse
Anne Stone quote

Seven-million-year-old femur suggests ancient human relative walked upright
Nature
08.24.2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02313-7
Yohannes Haile-Selassie quoted

Ancient bones confirmed that the earliest human ancestors walked upright
NBCNews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ancient-bones-confirm-earliest-known-human-ancestor-walked-upright-rcna44187
Raven Tribune
08.24.2022
https://raventribune.com/ancient-bones-confirm-that-the-earliest-human-ancestors-walked-upright/
Yahoo News
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ancient-bones-confirm-earliest-known-150000346.html
Yohannes Haile-Selassie quoted

South African fossils may rewrite history of human evolution
Live Science
07.03.2022
https://www.livescience.com/south-african-fossils-human-evolution
comparing Lucy to Sterkfontaine fossils

Yves Coppens, one of the discoverers of famous fossil 'Lucy,' dies at 87 | Science & Tech
EL PAÍS
06.23.2022
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-06-23/yves-coppens-one-of-the-discoverers-of-famous-fossil-lucy-dies-at-87.html

Death of prehistoric pope Yves Coppens
The Saxon
06.23.2020
https://thesaxon.org/death-of-prehistoric-pope-yves-coppens/

Tribute to Frenchman who found 3.2 million-year-old ‘Lucy’ skeleton
The Connexion France
06.23.2022
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Frenchman-who-found-the-3.2-million-year-old-skeleton-Lucy-has-died

The French co-discoverer of "Lucy" dies at the age of 87 - Science-Environment News
TopWireNews.com
06.23.2022
https://news.topwirenews.com/2022/06/28/the-french-co-discoverer-of-lucy-dies-at-the-age-of-87-science-environment-news-report-by-afr/

Yves Coppens seen by his peers: “Without him, some missions would have escpated France”
California18.com
06.23.2022
https://california18.com/yves-coppens-seen-by-his-peers-without-him-some-missions-would-have-escaped-france/5319432022/

Evolving history: Museum of Natural History undergoes staff, campus, program changes
FreshWater
06.28.2022
https://www.freshwatercleveland.com/breaking-ground/CMNHChanges062822.aspx

Cleveland Museum of Natural History expands and reconceives it internationally renowned anthropology program to connect human evolution and origins with human health, environmental change, and the human community today
Eurekalert
05.17.2022
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952987
Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Donald Johanson noted

Southern Cross Uni geochemist’s ARC funding to unlock secrets of earliest human evolution
Mirage News.com
02.21.2022
https://www.miragenews.com/southern-cross-uni-geochemists-arc-funding-to-728326/
Gary Schwartz noted