media

Selected Media Coverage:

  • Book: “Fossil Men” By Kermit Pattison (much-praised author). HarperCollins Publishers, 2020, 352 pages. (Interviewed by the Author about our human evolution research in Ethiopia, particularly the Nature Communications paper and the rebuttal with Tim White).

  • View from the Hill: WKU Geology grad lands dream job. December 13, 2018. (also featured on local ABC TV channel and Kentucky Living magazine).

  • Herald, College Heights (WKU): Under the Sea, Professor leads team mapping Gulf of Mexico seabed. Aug 25, 2016. Volume 92, Issue 2. (Cover story)

  • BBC Natural History: advised on submarine channels for a documentary on "World's Weirdest Events, Episode 8". (aired April 9, 2016).

  • Earth magazine, interviewed: Recent trends in human evolution studies. Dec 31, 2014.

  • National Geographic documentary "Earth: Making of a Planet" (received Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program): a documentary on physical and biological evolution of Earth. Advised Lindsey Truman (Production Coordinator) on geologic controls on human evolution and dispersal during past 6 Ma. (aired March 6, 2011) (also aired the same day on Discovery Channel Canada).

  • MS-NBC, 2011: Humans originated alongside rivers, evidence suggests, December 20.

  • Yahoo News, 2011: Humans originated alongside rivers, evidence suggests, December 20.

  • Book: "In Motion: The Experience of Travel" By Tony Hiss (much-praised author). Random House Digital, Inc., 2010, 352 pages. (Author devoted a few pages explaining our published idea of tectonic hypothesis of human evolution).

  • Discovery Channel series "Atlas 4D: Great Rift Valley": a documentary on the Great Rift Valley. Advised Jez Bradshaw (producer) on the part where geological links between the Great Rift and human evolution was shown. (aired on March 22, 2010).

  • Book: "In Motion: The Experience of Travel" By Tony Hiss (much-praised author). Random House Digital, Inc., 2010, 352 pages. (Author devoted a few pages explaining our published idea of tectonic hypothesis of human evolution)

  • NPR : National Public Radio, December 19, 2007

  • MS-NBC: Study: Human evolution had rocky start, December 19, 2007

  • FOX News: Geology May Have Created Perfect 'Cradle of Humanity, December 20, 2007

  • Discovery Channel: Geologists: Ethiopian Plateau Spurred Human Evolution, Sept 18, 2007

  • New Scientist: Climate change drove humans out of Africa, September 08, 2007, page 17

  • Salt Lake Tribune: Theory of evolution gets geologic update, in print, January 14, 2008

  • Daily India: Tectonics created 'Wall of Africa' allowed humanity to emerge, Dec 19, 2007