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Baylor Connections - Dan Peppe

Baylor Magazine - Geosciences, geology, ecosystem, ecology, biology, climate - Dan Peppe - Joseph White – professors, faculty, lab, headshots – 02/19/2020
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Baylor Magazine - Geosciences, geology, ecosystem, ecology, biology, climate - Dan Peppe - Joseph White – professors, faculty, lab, headshots – 02/19/2020

Dan Peppe, associate professor of geosciences, is part of an international team whose decade-long research project has shifted Africa’s prehistoric timeline by ten million years. Their revolutionary discoveries were featured in the journal Science and their research funded by the National Science Foundation.

In this Baylor Connections, Peppe takes listeners to Eastern Africa, where multi-disciplinary collaboration yielded discoveries that have a major ripple effect throughout the scientific community.

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