For Don Johanson's 80th birthday on June 28, we have a secret birthday card project asking everyone to send a card or letter to IHO offices in appreciate of his contributions to human origins science. Mail to IHO-ASU PO Box 878404, Tempe AZ 85287-8404 by June 21! Retweet!

PhD graduate Paige Madison has made her passion her career! Paige is one of the most knowledge people we know about the history of the science of human evolution. Follow her on Twitter Paige Madison Uncovering your own career path with Paige Madison podbean.com/ew/pb-9tv3e-14…

IHO scientists Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Donald Johanson, and IHO Board member Ian Tattersall participated in the recent Yves Coppens conference in Paris. The talks are online to view—college-de-france.fr/fr/audiovisuel

We need to add the 52246 Donaldjohanson asteroid to round out the ASU group!

Lucy the Explorer, of course! Southwest Research Institute

Peace and Love #RingoStarr! So excited for Lucy Mission to share the story about the inspiration for "Lucy" in the sky! Next year—IHO's Lucy 50th birthday!

Geneticist StoneLab_ASU discusses how identifying fire victims through DNA analysis can be challenging and what forensics is learning from archaeology for The Conversation theconversation.com/identifying-fi…

Please share with science and social studies teachers! The renewed and refreshed BecomingHuman.org—human evolution topics presented in a new and interesting way!

NY area friends—join IHO for a lecture by Ian Tattersall—the Origins of Modern Human Cognition, Nov 3 in NYC. A fundraiser for scholarships, research, and outreach. eventbrite.com/e/iho-new-york…

This sounds exciting if true (not peer reviewed yet): "Three South African silcrete sources can be identified regardless of heat treatment using solution ICP-MS and LA-ICP-MS" researchsquare.com/article/rs-360… #archeology #anthropology #Geology

Fifty years ago, paleoanthropologists unearthed the 3.2-million-year-old skeleton known as Lucy and transformed our views of humanity’s origins. Today, Lucy faces competition for the role of our direct ancestor but remains the best candidate. Learn more: scim.ag/6tI

We are celebrating the 50th anniversary this weekend in Tempe—thank you Science for the great article about this important milestone in human origins history!

IHO researcher Charles Perreault and PhD graduate Jonathan Paige conclude that humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge through social learning around 600,000 years ago. news.asu.edu/20240617-scien…

Happy birthday to IHO Founding Director Donald Johanson! To mark this day, IHO has released a video from Don talking about why humans need to understand our past in order to continue as a species into the future. youtube.com/watch?v=AiRb32…

IHO researcher Denise Su, writing in The Conversation US, helps us understand why the Lucy fossil is still important, 50 years later. theconversation.com/lucy-discovere…

Curtis Marean and his teams have been teasing out the secrets of our earliest modern human ancestors in caves at Pinnacle Point, South Africa, for over 25 years. In late July, the site was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site news.asu.edu/20240805-scien…

Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins and the IHO Research Council invite you to A Lucy 50th Anniversary event, Archaic Genomics An evening with Nobel Laureate Svante Pääbo. Register: iho.asu.edu/Lucy50/Paabo

The tiny bone that led to a very big discovery - Arizona State University paleontologist Donald Johanson talks about the moment that resulted in the unearthing of the Lucy skeleton 50 years ago! School of Human Evolution and Social Change The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences vimeo.com/1003334901

📢Join us Sept. 12 for an in-person talk about Climate and human evolution, Human adaptation through technology/archaeology and culture, and Stewarding vanishing art and heritage with collaborative paleoanthropology. Details: bit.ly/4gp0I5s

Join us in New York for A Lucy 50th Anniversary Event! Nov. 14 5:30-8:30pm "Connecting the Human Past to the Global Future," a Conversation with Donald Johanson and Carl Zimmer. Tickets & details: iho.asu.edu/Lucy50/NewYork…