Dating Fossils Again

Evolution Talk

English - December 22, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 186 ratings
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It's time to look at fossil dating again! The last episode mentioned two dating methods used to estimate how old the Homo Naledi bones found the Rising Star cave system might be. To do so, researchers used a Uranium-thorium method as well as electron spin resonance, or “ESR”. Let's take a brief look at what each of these entail.

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Written, Produced, & Narrated by: Rick Coste