Elizabeth Weiss
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first heard Jul 2026
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you know, throughout the world.
And you'll see that, you know, also there's climatic variation so that my PhD dissertation, for example, looked at different populations on trying to figure out what activity they were doing, but also taking into account that different
uh environments will have different body types so if you have look at you know very hot climates you tend to have more delicate build longer limbs um narrower because they're built to heat um and then in colder climates you get shorter people but broader and they um
you know, they conserve heat.
So that's part of the difference.
But within each area, there's less variation.
2024, yes.
Because a lot of my research involves bone biology, and that can be applied to any culture, the oldest...
remains that I have ever looked at were about 2 million years old.
And they were from Tanzania.
And basically, what I was looking at was foot bones from what was initially called, the skeleton was initially called Johnny's Boy, and it was thought to be the earliest evidence of...
a skeleton in our species, not species, now genus, Homo, so Homo habilis.
And one of the things is that this, well, about 2 million years ago, 2 to 2.5 million years ago,
there wasn't just one human around.
There were what we call our robust australopithecines, which were these huge, jawed, upright,
human types, but a different genus, Australopithecus.
And then there were like Homo erectus was already on the scene and then Homo habilis.
And so it was a bushy tree.
And so what we find in the foot bones that I was looking at, I was looking at the pattern of arthritis on the foot bone coupled with the growth pattern.
So when we're growing up from little to an adult,
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