{"id":268,"date":"2010-05-05T01:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T10:59:23","slug":"115-dr-robyn-pickering-the-discovery-of-australopithecus-sediba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"115 &#8211; Dr Robyn Pickering &#8211; The Discovery of Australopithecus Sediba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is Australopithecus Sediba?  It&#8217;s a newly discovered species of hominid that was discovered recently.  I talked to Dr Robyn Pickering at the University of Melbourne, who was involved in this discovery to talk about Sediba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Why was it called Sediba?<br \/>\n&#8211; What kind of dating technique was used to work out how old these fossils were?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why can&#8217;t carbon dating be used?<br \/>\n&#8211; How old were the Sediba bones?<br \/>\n&#8211; Where were the remains discovered?<br \/>\n&#8211; How is Australopithecus Sediba related to Australopithecus Africanus?<br \/>\n&#8211; What kinds of skeletons were discovered?<br \/>\n&#8211; What were the ages of the skeletons found?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why is the term &#8220;missing link&#8221; incorrect?<br \/>\n&#8211; What was the European Synchrotron used for with this discovery?<br \/>\n&#8211; How common are fossils?<br \/>\n&#8211; What upcoming research can we expect from this find?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s listener of the episode is Belinda Nicholson from Australia<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM115-RobynPickering.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 115<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/2.5\/au\/88x31.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Australopithecus Sediba? It&#8217;s a newly discovered species of hominid that was discovered recently. I talked to Dr Robyn Pickering at the University of Melbourne, who was involved in this discovery to talk about Sediba. &#8211; Why was it called Sediba? &#8211; What kind of dating technique was used to work out how old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14,16,20],"tags":[49,355,102,363,124,129,188,231,241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}