Our research on Ethiopian Plateau and human evolution, published in September 2007 issue of GSA Today and January 2008 issue of Geotimes, received extensive, world-wide media coverage. Some selected news:

 

NPR : National Public Radio, December 19, 2007

MSNBC: Study: Human evolution had rocky start, December 19, 2007

FOX News: Geology May Have Created Perfect 'Cradle of Humanity', December 20, 2007 

Discovery Channel: Geologists: Ethiopian Plateau Spurred Human Evolution, Sept 18, 2007

New Scientist: Climate change drove humans out of Africa, September 08, 2007, page 17

Live Science: Mountains of Evidence Suggest Human Evolution Had Rocky Start, Dec 19, 2007

Science Daily: Ethiopian Plateau Spurred Human Evolution, August 28, 2007

Salt Lake Tribune: Theory of evolution gets geologic update, in print, January 14, 2008

Daily India: Tectonics created 'Wall of Africa' allowed humanity to emerge, Dec 19, 2007

Anthropology Net: The Formation of Ethiopian Plateau and Human Evolution, Sept 1, 2007

MIT, Science Journalism: 3 million years ago the Ethiopian plateau rose. So did genus Homo?, Sept 18, 2007