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Jeremy DeSilva

Jeremy DeSilva
Jeremy DeSilva is an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. He is part of the research team that discovered and described two ancient members of the human family tree—Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi. He has studied wild chimpanzees in Western Uganda and early human fossils in museums throughout Eastern and South Africa. From 1998 to 2003, he worked as an educator at the Boston Museum of Science. He continues to be passionate about science education and travels throughout New England, giving lectures on human evolution. He and his wife, Erin, live in Norwich, Vermont, with their twins, Ben and Josie.


On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

From Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, Jeremy DeSilva Looks at
Our Need to Move
April 19, 2021  By Jeremy DeSilva
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