{"id":534,"date":"2011-12-05T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T21:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T10:02:51","slug":"151-dr-robyn-pickering-australopithecus-sedeba-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"151 &#8211; Dr Robyn Pickering &#8211; Australopithecus Sedeba Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I talk to Dr Robyn Pickering from the University of Melbourne, with an update on the status of research regarding the discovery of Australopithecus Sedeba.  Topics discussed include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the age of the Australopithecus Sedeba has been confirmed<br \/>\n&#8211; how the more accurate dates were determined<br \/>\n&#8211; how does this relate to homo?<br \/>\n&#8211; did Sedeba and Homo live side by side?<br \/>\n&#8211; is there a &#8216;discovery bias&#8217; in terms of what has been discovered so far?<br \/>\n&#8211; were the caves that these bones found in habitable?<br \/>\n&#8211; do we know much about the behaviour of these creatures?<br \/>\n&#8211; what is the next step for research in this area?<br \/>\n&#8211; what are the different forms of Australopithecus?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM151-SedebaUpdate.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 151<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode, I talk to Dr Robyn Pickering from the University of Melbourne, with an update on the status of research regarding the discovery of Australopithecus Sedeba. Topics discussed include: &#8211; the age of the Australopithecus Sedeba has been confirmed &#8211; how the more accurate dates were determined &#8211; how does this relate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-interview","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}