Legendary inventor and scholar Ronald A. Rohrer in SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering has been named to The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.
Human hunter-gatherer groups developed sophisticated social and mating networks to minimize inbreeding as early as 34,000 years ago, a new study finds.
DNA testing alone of ancient human remains can’t resolve questions about past societies.
A Folsom spear point was discovered between the ribs of an extinct species of bison — but was it really proof that humans had killed the animal?
Thousands of students, faculty and townspeople showed up on campus Monday, Aug. 22 to view the Great American Solar Eclipse at a viewing hosted by Dedman College and the SMU Physics Department.
The established theory of how Ice Age peoples first reached the present-day United States is now challenged by an unprecedented study that concludes that entry route was “biologically unviable.” The North American ice-free corridor, thought to have been used by the first colonizers, only became biologically viable 12,600 years ago — after they would have arrived. Researchers suggest a Pacific coast was the entry route.
SMU scientists and their research have a global reach that is frequently noted, beyond peer publications and media mentions. It was a good year for SMU faculty and student research efforts. Here's a small sampling of public and published acknowledgements during 2015, ranging from research modeling that made the cover of a scientific journal to research findings presented as evidence at government hearings.
New York Times reporter James Gorman interviewed SMU's David Meltzer, a professor in the SMU Department of Anthropology, about a new large genome-scale study revealing ancestors of Native Americans arrived in the Americas in a single migration wave, no earlier than 23,000 years ago.
The finding addresses the ongoing debate over when and how many times the ancestors of present-day Native Americans entered the New World from Siberia.
Los Angeles Times reporter Eryn Brown interviewed SMU's David Meltzer, a professor in the SMU Department of Anthropology, about a new large genome-scale study revealing ancestors of Native Americans arrived in the Americas in a single migration wave, no earlier than 23,000 years ago. The finding addresses the ongoing debate over when and how many times the ancestors of present-day Native Americans entered the New World from Siberia.