Dr. Brian Villmoare – Using teeth to help fill in the blanks of human evolution

Dr. Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada - Las Vegas shares how his team found teeth in Ethiopia and what those teeth might mean in terms of who was around when in the evolutionary record.

Recommendations

• Dr. Villmoare's University of Nevada - Las Vegas staff profile
• Dr. Villmoare's Human Paleontology Lab
• Villmoare, B., Delezene, L.K., Rector, A.L. et al. New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09390-4
• Kalb, J. (2013). Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Copernicus.
• Wood, B. (2019). Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. [<- This is what I was talking about when I mentioned an intro to human evolution from Cambridge.]
• Ian Tattersall's books + Ian Tattersall's website
• Jablonka, E. & Lamb, M.J. (2014). Evolution in Four Dimensions, Revised Edition: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. Bradford Book.
• Sapolsky, R.M. (2023). Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. Penguin Publishing Group.
• Rachel Kushner's books
• Reiss, T. (2006). The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life. Random House.
• Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series