Darren Curnoe, Co-Director,Palaeosciences Laboratory, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales (Australia)
My major passion is to understand the place of humans in nature, what makes us unique, and to understanding how evolution has shaped our bodies and behaviour over the millions of years since our ancestor with the chimpanzee. For more than 12 years I have worked on the human fossil records of Australia, Africa and Asia, specialising in the most recent two and a half million years or Ice Age period. I regularly conduct field research in South Africa, Kenya and China to find human fossils and to understand the processes involved in our evolution, especially change in culture, environment and climate. My deep love for the primates has led me to undertake studies of the behaviour and conservation of African moneys, who face overwhelming odds in the face of a burgeoning human population.
