Mike Herd

Nov 22, 2024 | dehai.org | David Galbreath |Charlie Hunt |Mike Herd

For a while, it seemed like military rule was heading to the dustbin of history. Images of fatigue-clad coupists tanking their way into power were a thing of the past, surely. But in some countries, the generals are taking over again. Myanmar is under control of a junta, and Africa has seen a spate of military coups sweeping away civilian governments in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. What’s going on?

Nov 21, 2024 | theconversation.com | Gemma Ware |Mike Herd |Yohannes Haile-Selassie

On November 24 1974, renowned American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson spotted “a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy” poking out of a rocky hillside in northern Ethiopia. It was the first fossil of a partial skeleton belonging to , an ancient female hominin who took the story of human evolution back beyond 3 million years for the first time.

Nov 21, 2024 | theconversation.com | Mike Herd |Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a partial skeleton amid the barren desert landscape of northern Ethiopia transformed our understanding of where humans came from, and how we developed into Homo sapiens. “Lucy” was first spotted on November 24 1974 by the American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his student assistant Tom Gray.

Nov 20, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Mike Herd

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Sep 30, 2024 | theconversation.com | Mike Herd |Paul Keaveny

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