Student Tickets: Inaugural Bill Kimbel Impact Lecture

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The Inaugural Bill Kimbel Impact Lecture—An Uncommon Paleoanthropologist

An Evening with Bernard Wood, PhD

7:00 pm at the Auditorium of the Walton Center for Planetary Health Auditorium.

You are invited to join the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) Research Council and IHO Director and Professor Yohannes Haile-Selassie for the Inaugural Bill Kimbel Impact Lecture. This lecture series is the outcome of an endowment established in former IHO Director William Kimbel’s name by his generous friends and colleagues after he passed away in April 2022.

For this inaugural lecture, Bernard Wood, PhD, and Director of the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University, will focus on the scientific career of Bill Kimbel. Wood will review the nature and significance of Kimbel’s unique and important contributions to paleoanthropology through both fieldwork and analysis. Kimbel was a consummate morphologist, whose knowledge of the craniodental evidence for early hominin evolution was unequalled. But he also understood that the opportunity to recover and study the original fossil evidence was a privilege, which comes with obligations and responsibilities. The obligations include the need for painstaking observation and analysis; the responsibilities include the requirement to present results in a way that promotes constructive and rigorous debate. Bill Kimbel was widely respected for his scholarship and professionalism. His career, which serves as a model for civility in our discipline, exemplified how the enterprise of paleoanthropology should be conducted.