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Evidence for Homo erectus eating more meat than earlier humans has been overstated and over analysed, according to researchers from George Washington University, in Washington, DC.
Analysis of ash from a massive volcanic eruption places the famed Omo I fossil 36,000 years back in time
Ryan McRae is a paleoanthropologist and doctoral student at The George Washington University whose research centers on better understanding how species, and the evolutionary relationships between them, are inferred from the fossil record. His research interests include living ape models of human evolution, comparative anatomy, and systematics. Ryan has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Israel, Italy, Romania, and Spain, and he has worked in science communication and outreach in association with the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program since 2019.
Paleoanthropologists Briana Pobiner and Ryan McRae reveal some of the year's best findings in human origins studies
<p>"Every time I got to pull a bone out of the ground it literally felt like reaching through time. I was touching a bone that hadn’t been touched for a million and a half years — it was magical" – Briana Pobiner.</p>