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Evidence of an early savannah grass growing millions of years earlier than previously known may fundamentally change the understanding of life in the prehistoric world. A pair of studies funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the journal Science document the earliest evidence for locally abundant open-habitat grasses in eastern Africa and how those environments likely influenced early ape evolution.

Africa’s earliest apes lived in landscapes that include C4 savanna grasses more than 10 million years earlier than previously thought.

Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes

Passing of Current Faculty Member Dr. Scott C. James, Associate Professor of Geosciences Baylor University is mourning the passing of current faculty member, Scott C. James, Ph.D., associate professor of geosciences, who died May 2 while visiting family in California. (Photo courtesy of the Baylor Department of Geosciences) May 6, 2021 WACO, Texas (May 6, 2021) - Baylor University is mourning the passing of current faculty member, Scott C. James, Ph.D., associate professor of geosciences, who died May 2, 2021, while visiting family in California. His colleagues in the Department of Geoscience...