One of the best hunters in the world appears from home excavations, old scientists, Johannes Hayley Silasi, on the screen of his home in Arizona, wearing an informal shirt. In the background, there is a picture of a field factor, accompanied by the blue sky that adopts, carries a large sieve, which is a basic piece of equipment for digging fossil remains.
Haile Silasi says he finds the amazing picture. In some respects, he returns it to his humble beginnings, as he was working as a fossil hunter and a supportive member of foreign scientists. It is described to what extent has reached since then, and why does the history of the field that they overwhelmed through long arrival from colonialism, through which the rich countries are still engraved and exploited the resources of poor countries. He talks about his mind, addresses the elephant in the room.
“Many evidence that comes out of Africa teach us about our origins,” he says. It is recorded with the exception of African researchers from many fossil discoveries that were conducted on the continent. Press science – the practice of Western scientists working in other countries without engaging local researchers – still flourishes in red cases. 2024 analysis of about 30,000 fossil discoveries Posted in sciences. The study found that many of the papers of cases published in the previous 34 years have no authors at all from the nations in which the excavations were discovered.
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She was born and ranked in Adjaraz, Ethiopia, Haley Silasi studied history at Addis Ababa University. Later, he obtained a PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Now director Institute of Human Funds At Arizona State University (ASU) at Tempe, Haile-Selassie works in an attempt to stop the umbrella sciences that occur in his homeland. It calls for the end of colonialism in the science of cases and radical change in those who get the story of the story of human origins, and how.
Haile Silasi is famous for the scientific discoveries that have been strongly held in human development. MRD, a 3.8 million -year -old skull, discovered in the Arwesh region of Ethiopia in 20161. The sample belongs to a known type Australopithecus Anamensis It is the most complete skull in an early human ancestor found so far from the time period. Hayley-Sellasi’s work showed that instead of being “grandfather” directly evolutionary and pace Australopithecus Afarensis (The types to which Al -Ahfar belongs is known as Lucy), A. Anamensis and A. Ceach for some time.
Shortly before heading to Ethiopia to do the annual field work, he spoke to nature About the reason for his fight to include him and how he plans to increase the number of old African scholars.
What is the great passion that pushed you as a scientist?
Going to the field helped me develop a great passion. I got what we call “Homeinid Fever” when I found nothing immediately, but another person did so. And when you find these fossils, you were told that it is reshaping how we think about human development.
The science of strong cases was also an opportunity for me to follow my education. As a historian, I have not seen an opportunity to move forward in Ethiopia at the time. But working with old environmental scientists from other countries made me realize that I can enhance my studies and contribute to discoveries from my country. In 2001, before I finished a doctorate, I published a paper in natureAs a single author2Naming a new type, one of the first ancestors of man, Ardipithicus Ramabba. This was a great beginning for my career. My vision for those I wanted to be – an active player in the science of cases. It is not a member of support staff, but someone can find excavations, analyzes and describing themselves and spreading their work on the world stage.
Why does the inclusion work important for you?
He asked me by my Ethiopian colleagues, “Scientists find all these fossils from the Ethiopia region away, but what are you doing to help train the local population in the environment?” Now, at my position at Arizona State University, given the colonial legacy of our field, I want to make a change. During the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Lucy’s discovery last year, she felt a good opportunity to bring these issues to the limelight. We celebrate the possibility that was found in Africa, but we must go beyond the celebration of the discoverer, Donald Johansson, a white American who founded the institute in which I work. One university in Asia, Samara University, does not even have a master’s program in ancient cases.
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So, their colleagues at Arizona State University took a group of scientists, friends and members of the institute’s board of directors to Ethiopia. We visited many important places, including the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, the site where Lucy and Sanarah were discovered. The university honored us and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities named after Donald Johansson. When we returned, many talks were held on Samara University with Arizona State University. Now, we have a memorandum of understanding between our universities to create a master’s program online in ancient cases to train local scientists and build research capabilities in a distant area.
When did you realize that you want to address the end of colonialism in science?
Natural laboratories in which we collect many excavations needed to understand our history in Africa. But often, when you look at those who collect and study these excavations, contribute to science and narrate the story of our origins, you do not find any Africans. You may find some Africans called confessions or the list of participants, but most of these people are either fossil fishermen or members of support employees who help sinking samples in this field. Why can’t we get more Africans like me? Western researchers fly to Africa, get all the raw data, then return everything to Europe and the United States to do all analyzes and spread work, while all Africans working with them in this field are not part of it. This is not fair.
Some people may say, “Oh, now there are Africans with red sciences.” Well, this is great, but it shouldn’t stop there. If we have natural laboratories there, why can we also not get physical laboratories in Africa?