Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
A recent Kenyan fossil find is challenging theories of human evolution. Two fossils – an upper jaw bone of a Homo habilis and a skull of a Homo erectus — reveal that the two species lived side by side for half a million years instead of evolving one after the other as previously thought. Join Kojo as we discuss the discovery and its significance to human prehistory.
Guests
- Rick Potts Director of the Human Origins Program, Paleoanthropologist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Fred Spoor Professor of Anatomy at the Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology at University College London.
- Frank Brown Professor of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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