The Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the
Department of Biology at Western Carolina University are proud to
sponsor a free public talk about the discovery of a new human
ancestor, Homo naledi. This research has been featured in
National Geographic Magazine and on NPR.
Hello, Homo naledi!
Presented by
Dr. Zach Throckmorton
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
7:00 p.m.
City Lights Bookstore
3 E. Jackson St.
Sylva, NC 28779
H. naledi foot (Image from National
Geographic magazine, Oct. 2015)
Dr. Throckmorton examines fossilized H. naledi
bones. (Image courtesy Will Harcourt-Smith)
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.