we now know what we’ve done we’ve got a
new member of the genus Homo a species
that we’re going to call healing the
lady
it’s day 29 of a 30 day workshop that is
entirely designed to describe and study
the first generation of papers on the
material from rising star
I brought together around 40 to 45
people at any one time with about thirty
to thirty two early career scientists
entirely unique skill set as well as
differences of opinion using different
backgrounds and training so that we were
sure that we would be looking to see
whether we could efficiently go through
this material in a way no one’s ever
done before
so this is the most complete piece of
the pelvis that we have there’s not a
whole lot there but there’s actually
some very important morphologies
preserved on this piece all these bones
were found together they will come from
the same individual they all come from
the same side but we don’t obviously
want to do the originals so we’re doing
it with 3d printer anyone who walked
into that room feel the internet
scientific you could actually feel the
room vibrating with it it’s an amazing
experience I’ve learned tons
so the axial skeleton really took a
beating in preservation so we’ve got
lots of little pieces so in an overall
size if we take a look at our vertebra
it’s very very tiny if we compare it to
the smallest known Australopithecus
vertebra of a similar level that
belonging to Lucy from Australopithecus
afarensis you can see that that our
vertebra is actually a fair amount
smaller than that of Lucy in terms of
the cranial team I didn’t know anyone
and we are six ladies early career
scientists just got together and we just
started working it you know two of us
went over and did the matrix stuff two
of us went off and did non matrix and
the other two did them but I think so at
work every piece of body has kind of
like its own story and now you have to
come by come combine all of it and come
to a kind of solution for the call we
work in a pretty contentious field so I
had some fears that there might be some
of the things are controversial we
wouldn’t want to say that you’re gonna
have in fighting among among the various
groups but it hasn’t been that way
I would say it has been a very positive
experience
just the sheer magnitude of material is
awesome and yeah that’s good to be some
African the teeth in the maxilla are
offset a postie really right so the
maxillary m3 can’t touch them the
ability to bounce questions at a moment
to each of the cross-pollination
scientific ideas you make less mistakes
I’ll bet you that we’ve spent more more
in this month in person hours working on
his material it was tasted in years and
years and years working on their mature
I learned it the people could go into
paleoanthropology and study do it for
love and passion if you let them loose
on these fossils they create
extraordinary things because they’re
passionate
you
you
new member of the genus Homo a species
that we’re going to call healing the
lady
it’s day 29 of a 30 day workshop that is
entirely designed to describe and study
the first generation of papers on the
material from rising star
I brought together around 40 to 45
people at any one time with about thirty
to thirty two early career scientists
entirely unique skill set as well as
differences of opinion using different
backgrounds and training so that we were
sure that we would be looking to see
whether we could efficiently go through
this material in a way no one’s ever
done before
so this is the most complete piece of
the pelvis that we have there’s not a
whole lot there but there’s actually
some very important morphologies
preserved on this piece all these bones
were found together they will come from
the same individual they all come from
the same side but we don’t obviously
want to do the originals so we’re doing
it with 3d printer anyone who walked
into that room feel the internet
scientific you could actually feel the
room vibrating with it it’s an amazing
experience I’ve learned tons
so the axial skeleton really took a
beating in preservation so we’ve got
lots of little pieces so in an overall
size if we take a look at our vertebra
it’s very very tiny if we compare it to
the smallest known Australopithecus
vertebra of a similar level that
belonging to Lucy from Australopithecus
afarensis you can see that that our
vertebra is actually a fair amount
smaller than that of Lucy in terms of
the cranial team I didn’t know anyone
and we are six ladies early career
scientists just got together and we just
started working it you know two of us
went over and did the matrix stuff two
of us went off and did non matrix and
the other two did them but I think so at
work every piece of body has kind of
like its own story and now you have to
come by come combine all of it and come
to a kind of solution for the call we
work in a pretty contentious field so I
had some fears that there might be some
of the things are controversial we
wouldn’t want to say that you’re gonna
have in fighting among among the various
groups but it hasn’t been that way
I would say it has been a very positive
experience
just the sheer magnitude of material is
awesome and yeah that’s good to be some
African the teeth in the maxilla are
offset a postie really right so the
maxillary m3 can’t touch them the
ability to bounce questions at a moment
to each of the cross-pollination
scientific ideas you make less mistakes
I’ll bet you that we’ve spent more more
in this month in person hours working on
his material it was tasted in years and
years and years working on their mature
I learned it the people could go into
paleoanthropology and study do it for
love and passion if you let them loose
on these fossils they create
extraordinary things because they’re
passionate
you
you
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