Irony department

Stony Brook University, employer of the evolution-denier Michael Egnor, has Maeve Leakey for an adjunct professor and established a Turkana Basin Institute for the study of human evolution.

In conjunction with Richard, Meave, and Louise Leakey, Stony Brook University has created the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI), an international research institute to facilitate and support paleontological, archeological, and geological research in the Turkana Basin.

For the past four decades, the Turkana Basin has been the source of unparalleled discoveries in vertebrate, primate, and human evolution and archaeology. However, despite over 70 years of field research in paleoanthropology in Africa, huge gaps remain in our knowledge of human origins and vertebrate evolution in Africa. TBI will help to fill those gaps.

TBI has its principal academic home at Stony Brook University and three proposed field research facilities in Kenya surrounding Lake Turkana, an area of exceptional richness for paleontological and archaeological research. Stony Brook is particularly appropriate for the academic hub of this institute because of its longstanding position as a world-renowned center of paleontological and anthropological research, especially in the areas of primate and human evolution.