Thursday, February 12, 2009
Lucy in the Scanner
Team Lucy CT: From the left, Ron Harvey, conservator; Alemu Admassu, curator; John Kappelman, anthropologist; and Richard Ketcham, geologist and CT Lab director.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the Ethiopian government, have completed the first high-resolution CT scan of the world’s most famous fossil, Lucy, an ancient human ancestor who lived 3.2 million years ago.
Video on the CT Lab from NPR's Science Friday
John Kappelman, professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, led the
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