2024 Media Coverage
Multimedia
In Search of the First Cyborg (podcast)
Sapiens.org
05.08.2024
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-evolution-first-cyborg/
podcast featuring Cindy Huang
Lucy, the fossil, 50 years later
Arizona PBS—Arizona Horizon
04.23.2024
https://azpbs.org/horizon/2024/04/lucy-the-fossil/
2024 Lund Symposium
Next Breath
April 18–19, 2024
https://www.nextbreath.global/molecularfrontierssymposiumlund2024
On Human Origins and the Future of Humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-DoWrtlyU
Researcher who found ‘Lucy’ skeleton works at ASU now, and wants us to focus on future
KJZZ/The Show
04.04.2024
https://kjzz.org/content/1875996/researcher-who-found-lucy-skeleton-50-years-ago-works-asu-now-and-wants-us-focus
If you donate DNA, what should scientists give in return? A ‘pathbreaking’ new model
NPR—All Things Considered
01.22.2024
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/01/22/1225670770/if-you-donate-dna-what-should-scientists-give-in-return-a-pathbreaking-new-model
ASU News
ASU faculty member elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04.29.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240429-university-news-asu-faculty-member-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences
Rob Boyd
ASU professor named AAAS Fellow (Kaye Reed)
04.18.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240418-university-news-asu-professor-named-aaas-fellow
50 years later, international experts discuss importance of ‘Lucy’ discovery at ASU symposium
04.15.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240416-science-and-technology-50-years-later-international-experts-discuss-importance-lucy?{_src}=news-story
New ASU research shows how poor oral health affects the heart, brain
03.20.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240320-health-and-medicine-new-asu-research-shows-how-poor-oral-health-affects-heart-brain?{_src}=news-story
Toba super-eruption unveils new insights into early human migration
03.20.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240320-science-and-technology-toba-supereruption-unveils-new-insights-early-human-migration
ASU study says our brains are flexible in choosing a partner, but we look to others for help
03.06.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240306-science-and-technology-asu-study-says-our-brains-are-flexible-choosing-partner-we-look?{_src}=news-story
‘Lucy’ discovery turns 50: ‘A Year for Human Origins
01.17.2024
https://news.asu.edu/20240130-science-and-technology-lucy-discovery-turns-50-year-human-origins?{_src}=news-story
External Media Coverage
Arizona professors receive recognition from science association
KJZZ.org
04.20.2024
https://kjzz.org/content/1877606/arizona-professors-receive-recognition-science-association
Was Lucy the mother of us all? Fifty years after her discovery, the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton has rivals
Newswire
04.23.2024
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/705937289/was-lucy-the-mother-of-us-all-fifty-years-after-her-discovery-the-3-2-million-year-old-skeleton-has-rivals
What we can learn from Lucy, the world’s most famous fossil
Der Standard (Austria)
04.14.2024
https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/3000000214988/was-wir-von-lucy-dem-beruehmtesten-fossil-der-welt-lernen-koennen
Lucy’s World
Science Magazine (cover)
04.04.2024
https://www.science.org/content/article/was-lucy-mother-us-all-fifty-years-discovery-famed-skeleton-rivals
Toba super-eruption unveils fresh insights on early human migration
India Education Diary
03.26.2024
https://indiaeducationdiary.in/toba-super-eruption-unveils-fresh-insights-on-early-human-migration/
The survival story of early humans against a superstorm reveals how they fend for themselves in the forest
List23
03.23.2024
https://list23.com/3731560-the-survival-story-of-early-humans-against-a-superstorm-reveals-how-they-fend-for-themselves-in-the-/
Survival Through Ashes: How Early Humans Outwitted a Supereruption
SciTechDaily
03.23.2024
https://scitechdaily.com/survival-through-ashes-how-early-humans-outwitted-a-supereruption/
Supervolcano Eruption Reveals What Could Have Driven Humans Out of Africa
Science Alert
|03.21.2024
https://www.sciencealert.com/supervolcano-eruption-reveals-what-could-have-driven-humans-out-of-africa
Toba supereruption unveils new insights into early human migration
Popular Archaeology Magazine
03.20.2024
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/toba-supereruption-unveils-new-insights-into-early-human-migration/
New Insights into Human Migration: How a Massive Volcanic Eruption May Have Precipitated Exodus from Africa
United Arab Emirates Business Journal
03.20.2024
https://theubj.com/uae/science/58768/new-insights-into-human-migration-how-a-massive-volcanic-eruption-may-have-precipitated-exodus-from-africa/
They created at 3D model of Lucy, the most famous human ancestor
Spark Chronicles
01.14.2024
https://sparkchronicles.com/they-created-a-3d-model-of-lucy-the-most-famous-human-ancestor/
A compelling theory to explain a key trait of modern humans
News Click
01.06.2024
https://www.newsclick.in/compelling-theory-explain-key-trait-modern-humans
Pressenza.com
01.20.2024
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/a-compelling-theory-to-explain-a-key-trait-of-modern-humans/
Curtis Marean research
Hyperprosociality: The key to Homo sapiens’ global spread, suggests paleoanthropologist Curtis Marean
BNN Breaking
01.05.2024
https://bnnbreaking.com/tech/science-tech/hyperprosociality-the-key-to-homo-sapiens-global-spread-suggests-paleoanthropologist-curtis-marean/
A compelling theory to explain a key trait of modern humans
Resilience.org
01.05.2024
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-01-05/a-compelling-theory-to-explain-a-key-trait-of-modern-humans/
Curtis Marean research
How we evolved and how culture can reshape us
LAProgressive
01.04.2024
https://www.laprogressive.com/africa/how-we-evolved
Curtis Marean research
Noted and Quoted
Syphilis microbe’s family has plagued humans for millennia
Nature
01.24.2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00191-9
Anne Stone quoted
Lucy 50 Coverage
Lucy: A common ancestor of all humans
The Stute
04.18.2024
https://thestute.com/2024/04/18/lucy-a-common-ancestor-of-all-humans/
Lucy, a new portrait fifty years after its discovery
Scientific American-Italian version
04.09.2024
https://www.lescienze.it/news/2024/04/09/news/lucy_50_anni_scoperta-15589238/
The 50th anniversary of excavation of Lucy will be marked
ENA
02.15.2024
https://www.ena.et/web/eng/w/eng_4017621
From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We are all Africans
Gloria Feldt blog
02.05.2024
https://takethelead.medium.com/from-lucy-to-leadership-part-1-we-are-all-africans-8e7cf5a6b317
Samara University recognized the great Professor Donald C Johanson
Samara University website
01.28.2024
https://su.edu.et/samara-university-recognized-the-great-professor-donald-c-johanson/
Lucy discoverer Johanson, Arizona State University team in Afar region
ENA
01.24.2024
https://www.ena.et/web/eng/w/eng_3916602
Lucy Mission Continuing Coverage