Profs & Pints DC: The Search for Human Origins

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Search for Human Origins,” on the quest for fossil remains of a missing link, with Noel Boaz, paleoanthropologist, founder of International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, and author of books such as Quarry, Closing in on the Missing Link.

Profs and Pints is teaming up with the Washington D.C. chapter of the Explorers Club to offer a scholarly adventure: An evening with Noel Boaz, a scholar at the front lines of the search for fossil remains of the enigmatic and controversial first hominin, Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

Dr Boaz will begin by introducing his audience to anthropogeny, a multidisciplinary field that researches the origins of human species by studying not just the fossil remains of hominins themselves but also their ancient environments. Along with studying the genetic make-up of early hominins, it seeks to learn more about what plants and animals lived alongside them, what they…