The Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the
Department of Biology at Western Carolina University are proud to
sponsor a public lecture on the newly discovered human ancestor,
Homo naledi.
Homo naledi Strides Again
Deliberate Disposal of a Dated Dichotomy
Presented by
Dr. Zach Throckmorton
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
12:20-1:10 p.m.
Western Carolina University
McKee Building, Room 121.
Dr. Throckmorton examines fossilized H. naledi
bones. (Image courtesy Will Harcourt-Smith)
H. naledi foot (Image from National
Geographic magazine, Oct. 2015)
Dr. Zach Throckmorton is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Lincoln Memorial
University's DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tennessee and a Rising Star
Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies Institute in
South Africa. His research specialty is hominin foot and ankle evolution.