Gladys Mae West
Gladys Mae West (née Brown; born October 27, 1930[1]) is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite…
Cheddar Man
Cheddar Man is a human male fossil found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th millennium BC, corresponding to the…
Tsodilo Hills
The Tsodilo Hills are a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS), consisting of rock art, rock shelters, depressions, and caves in southern Africa. In 2006 the site known as Rhino Cave…
Mark E. Dean
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer…
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race’s origins and pre-colonial African culture.
John Edmonstone
Edmonstone gave Darwin inspiring accounts of tropical rain forests in South America and may have encouraged him to explore there. The taxidermy Darwin learnt from Edmonstone helped him greatly during…
Taung Child
The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus.
Lucy (Australopithecus)
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of fossilized bone.
Ardi
Ardi was not the first fossil of A. ramidus to come to light. The first ones were found in Ethiopia in 1992, but it took 17 years to assess their…