Tori Randall
Anthropologist
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All Videos (29)
- What I Do
- Why Girls Should Consider Paleopathology and Skeletal Biology
- Why Biological Anthropology
- What I Like about Working in the Museum
- Tools for Digging up Skeletons
- Things We Can Learn from Bones
- Skills to Develop
- Helpful Teachers
- Heroes
- Skills from Childhood
- Overcoming Obstacles
- The La Jollan People
- San Diego Museum of Man
- Great Part
- Goals
- Favorites
- Family Support
- Learning from Human Skeletons
- Education
- Difference Between Paleontology and Anthropology
- Did it Anyway
- How We Find Skeletal Remains
- If You Find Skeletal Remains
- Cross Sectional Geometry
- Challenges
- Biological Anthropology
- Archaeological Dig
- Also a Forensic Consultant for Police Case
- Advice
Bio
Watch Tori Randall, Ph.D., curator at the San Diego Museum of Man, share how her work involves creating exhibits and caring for and researching the items with in them. She knew that she wanted to be a biological anthropologist when taking a college class on the subject she held a tool that was 2 million years old and created by Homo Erectus. Right after that class, she ran to a pay phone and told her mom she had found her career. She advises girls to think about a career in paleopathology because there is always new information to uncover with each new analytical technique. With each advance in technology, there are new ways to unlock the stories from our past.
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