The Bradshaw Foundation is delighted to welcome Cassandra Turcotte to its Advisory Board.

Cassandra Turcotte, from the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of George Washington University, has been an integral part of the Bradshaw Foundation’s ORIGINS section.

 
For Human Evolution Turcotte considers one of our most important questions: How humans became 'human'. Human origins is being investigated and understood through evolutionary theory, which sees humans placed with the other great apes on the Tree of Life. She considers 3 fundamental questions: how and why the human and ape lineages diverged and, thirdly, what morphological, genetic and behavioral changes occurred during human evolution to bring about modern 'humanness'.
 
Furthermore, in order to understand the importance of Palaeolithic stone tools in relation to the Fossil Record, Turcotte explains what the study of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic lithic technologies - the earliest instances of innovation – reveals about the cognitive and symbolic processes involved, and about the first signs of creative behaviour.

Visit the ORIGINS section:
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/origins/index.php