50 years after the discovery of the skeleton of the Australopithecine Lucy, the story of how our conception of human evolution has changed From an idea by Alessio Minuzzo. With Alessio Minuzzo, Ranieri Bizzarri, Giulio Anichini, Giorgio Manzi, Elisabetta Palagi. For Liberi Oltre Le Illusioni - STEM: Alessio Minuzzo and Ranieri Bizzarri Link to the related article: https://www.liberioltreleillusioni.it... _______ Chapters ???? 00:00 The Story of the Discovery of Lucy 04:15 Our Oldest Ancestor (Manzi) 31:29 A Behavior from 3 Million Years Ago (Palagi) 51:12 Australopithecus Brain (Anichini) 01:12:09 The End of the Journey _______ Speaker. Bio and Resources GIORGIO MANZI Graduated in Biology, he is Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interests concern the evolution of the genus Homo and the skeletal biology of ancient human populations. He has studied human fossil finds from the Lower Paleolithic to the Neolithic, paying particular attention to the first settlement of Europe, the evolution of Neanderthal man and the transition from archaic forms of the genus Homo to the modern species. https://dba.web.uniroma1.it/sites/def... ELISABETTA PALAGI Associate Professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Pisa. Graduated in Biology and PhD in Evolutionary Biology. Since 1992 he has been studying social behavior in primates. He has worked on social and sexual behavior and the mechanisms underlying empathy. https://www.ucp.istc.cnr.it/index.php... GIULIO ANICHINI Doctor graduated in 2007 and specialized in neurosurgery in 2013 at Sapienza University of Rome with a fellowship at Cornell University in New York. He worked for NHS Grampian (Scotland, UK) from 2013 to 2015 and is currently a research fellow at Imperial College London. Passionate about neuroscience, his research is mainly focused on new technologies to improve the treatment and early diagnosis of brain tumors, but he is also very interested in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. https://www.liberioltreleillusioni.it... For STEM Editorial Staff Alessio Minuzzo https://www.liberioltreleillusioni.it... Ranieri Bizzarri https://www.farmacia.unina.it/documen... _______ Bibliography Johanson - A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of eastern Africa; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/p... Was Lucy the mother of us all? Fifty years after discovery, famed skeleton has rivals Science https://www.science.org/content/artic... How the 'Lucy' Fossil Rewrote the Story of Human Origins https://www.history.com/news/lucy-fos... Schrein, CM (2015) Lucy: A marvelous specimen. Nature Education Knowledge 6(7):2 https://tancuarku.com/lander/tancuark... _______ Articles ‧ https://www.liberioltreleillusioni.it/ Economy, Politics, Current Affairs ‧ / @liberioltre Science and Technology ‧ / @liberioltrestem Social Sciences, Philosophy and Public Policies ‧ / @liberioltreagora An Open, Plural, Non-Ideological and Non-Identitarian place. We try to spread the principles of Merit, Competence, Individual Responsibility, Decisional and Information Transparency, Subsidiarity, Protection of Individual Freedoms, Market Economy, Competition and Individual and Collective Solidarity... This is Liberi Oltre! _______ Content distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license by Liberi Oltre le Illusioni. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...