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LAWRENCE -- World-renowned paleoanthropologist Milford Wolpoff will present a public lecture Thursday, Aug. 15, in conjunction with the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology exhibit "Early Us (and Them) in Africa."
Wolpoff will discuss his research on the earliest hominids and review the evolutionary evidence that distinguishes humans from other primates at 7 p.m. at the KU Museum of Anthropology. The lecture is titled "The Man-Apes: For Most of Our Prehistory, Human Ancestors Have Been Australopithecus. Why can't we tell which one?"
The "Early Us (and Them) in Africa" exhibit focuses on the earliest hominids found in Africa spanning 1 million to 6 million years ago, and the exhibit ends Aug. 25. The exhibit and lecture are free and open to the public. The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and is closed on Sundays. For more information, call (785) 864-4245 or go online at www.ku.edu/~kuma.
Wolpoff has trained many of the current researchers in the field. He wrote the recently published book "Paleoanthropology" and, with his wife, Rachel Caspari, wrote the book "Race and Human Evolution" four years ago. The latter won the W.W. Howells award from the American Anthropological Association.
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