In the Media

2023 Media Coverage


Multimedia

ASU expands work with Jane Goodall Institute
KJZZ.org
06.29.2023
https://kjzz.org/content/1850833/asu-expands-work-jane-goodall-institute

Coppens conference, Paris
June 15–16, 2023
https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/audiovisuel

Yohannes Haile-Selassie 
https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/les-heritiers-de-lucy-lucy-heirs/lucy-next-door-neighbors-she-was-not-alone   

Don Johanson
https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/les-heritiers-de-lucy-lucy-heirs/the-french-connection-from-the-omo-to-the-afar

Ian Tattersall
https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/les-heritiers-de-lucy-lucy-heirs/retrospect

Zeray Alemseged
https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/les-heritiers-de-lucy-lucy-heirs/the-new-status-of-australopithecus

Fossils Tell a Story! FunScienceToons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEWWoEvvoIo
George and Kim Mehler—Fun Science Demos

Chimp Empire
Netflix
March 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjgL7Pumb4Q (trailer)
Kevin Langergraber research site


ASU News

Anthropologist prioritizes the people part of research
07.18.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230718-global-engagement-anthropologist-prioritizes-people-part-research 

Jane Goodall Institute, ASU to expand partnership
06.27.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230627-jane-goodall-institute-and-asu-take-first-steps-expand-partnership

ASU study reveals ‘work-life balance’ for baboons
06.02.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230602-worklife-balance-baboons

ASU retains No. 1 in US and top 10 spot globally in UN Sustainable Development Goals ranking
06.01.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230601-university-news-asu-retains-no-1-us-and-top-10-globally-times-higher-ed-impact-ranking-work

‘Chimp Empire’: ASU professor studies community featured in Netflix series
05.01.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230501-netflix-series-chimp-empire-captures-unprecedented-year-lives-chimpanzees-studied-asu

ASU anthropology graduate to focus on ethics in museum studies
04.24.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230424-anthropology-graduate-will-focus-future-career-ethics-museum-studies
Mackenzie Wright

New study changes perception of early apes and their environments
04.13.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230413-new-research-changes-perception-early-apes-their-environments

ASU study examines why some environments have more species than others
03.21.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230321-asu-study-examines-why-some-environments-have-more-species-others

New research indicates the ‘whites’ of human eyes are not uniquely human
03.13.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230313-new-research-indicates-whites-human-eyes-are-not-uniquely-human

Outside in
03.12.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230313-discoveries-outside

ASU’s Ancient Technology lab is a place for students, community to learn the process of ancient tool-making
01.10.2023
https://news.asu.edu/20230110-discoveries-stone-age-toolmaking-lab-rocks-asu-students


External Media Coverage

Cave discovery proves ‘life really is better’ in the Cape
Sunday Times Daily (South Africa)
05.03.2023
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times-daily/news/2023-05-03-cave-discovery-proves-life-really-is-better-in-the-cape/

Chimpanzees and other mammals have the ‘whites of the eye’ too, not just humans
UT News
02.06.2023
https://news.utexas.edu/2023/02/06/chimpanzees-and-other-mammals-have-the-whites-of-the-eye-too-not-just-humans/


Noted and Quoted

Human adaptation to heat can’t keep up with human-caused climate change
Time.com
07.06.2023 
https://time.com/6292615/human-adaptation-to-heat-climate-change/
Notes Lucy discovery and Johanson

The 3-million-year-old lucy was a powerlifter
Discover Magazine.com
06.19.2023
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-3-million-year-old-lucy-was-built-like-a-powerlifter
mentions Johanson and Lucy

First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million year-old ‘Lucy’ could stand as erect as we can
Science Daily
06.14.2023
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230614220724.htm

3D muscle reconstruction shows 3.2-million-year-old “Lucy” walked upright
Ars Technica
06.13.2023
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/3d-muscle-reconstruction-shows-3-2-million-year-old-lucy-walked-upright/

Was a small-brained human relative the world’s first gravedigger—and artist?
Science.org
06.05.2023
https://www.science.org/content/article/was-small-brained-human-relative-world-s-first-gravedigger-and-artist
Curtis Marean quoted

The secrets of cooperation
Yahoo News
03.29.2023
https://news.yahoo.com/secrets-cooperation-070000582.html
Rob Boyd noted

36 bodies were found in unmarked colonial graves. DNA is revealing their stories.
Washington Post
01.09.2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/09/dna-african-graves/
Anne Stone quoted