# Dr. Brian Villmoare – Using teeth to help fill in the blanks of human evolution

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Podcast: [AnthroBiology Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/anthrobiology-podcast-263302)
Published: 2026-01-29T15:13:00+00:00
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Dr. Brian Villmoare of the University of Nevada - Las Vegas shares how his team found teeth in Ethiopia and what those teeth might mean in terms of who was around when in the evolutionary record. Recommendations Dr. Villmoare's University of Nevada - Las Vegas staff profile Dr. Villmoare's Human Paleontology Lab Villmoare, B., Delezene, L.K., Rector, A.L. et al. New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia . Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09390-4 Kalb, J. (2013). Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression . Copernicus. Wood, B. (2019). Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press. [ Ian Tattersall's books + Ian Tattersall's website Jablonka, E. & Lamb, M.J. (2014). Evolution in Four Dimensions, Revised Edition: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life . Bradford Book. Sapolsky, R.M. (2023). Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will . Penguin Publishing Group. Rachel Kushner's books Reiss, T. (2006). The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life . Random House. Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series

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