Zeresenay Alemseged Biography

Zeresenay Alemseged, a paleoanthropologist, researches the history of humans. The 3.3 million-year-old bones of Selam, a 3-year-old female of the species Australopithecus afarensis, were found by him as part of his Dikika Research Project (DRP) in Ethiopia's Afar desert. She belongs to the same species as Lucy, who was found nearby in 1974. Alemseged is looking for the points in time when humans and apes separated by examining Selam's little bones. Selam, for example, may have had shoulders like apes suited for climbing trees, but her legs were slanted for upright walking. Her young brain was still developing at age 3, indicating that she would have a lengthy childhood in the manner of a human. Alemseged also recognizes the origin of the human voice in the hyoid bone in her neck. Alemseged, who was born in Axum, Ethiopia, currently resides in San Francisco and works as the director and curator of the Anthropology department of the California Academy of Sciences. He was previously a senior researcher at Leipzig's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Visit the Nature video archives to watch more Alemseged footage.

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