What was a whale doing 17 million ago in what is now the desert of the Turkana Basin? Nengo is also professor of anthropology and associate director of New York's Stony Brook University’s Turkana Basin Institute. Researchers will explore relationships among tectonics, climate and mammal evolution in the Turkana Basin using integrated field work, laboratory and modelling studies. It will work at Stony Brook's Turkana Basin Institute to produce a tectonic model that reconstructs rift evolution East Africa over 25 million years. Turkana University College in collaboration with Turkana Basin Institute plan to offer a human evolutionary biology master’s degree programme, the first in a university in Kenya.

Source: The Star October 08, 2020 20:03 UTC