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“Meanwhile, in the early 1970s Donald Johanson, a brash young scientist from the United States, joined a field expedition at a site in Ethiopia called Hadar. The team found hominin fossils, including a partial skeleton soon to become the most famous in the world, nicknamed “Lucy.” Geological work dated Lucy and associated fossils back more than three million years.”
― Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
― Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
“Wits [Witwatersrand University] was semi-independent, but the government held the purse strings for the vast majority of research. Human evolution research could not be a priority, because it challenged the premise of apartheid by showing the common origin of all humankind. By the late 1980s, the science was clearly showing that our evolutionary roots began in Africa. The work of many scientists, in South Africa and elsewhere, defied the racial logic of the National Party. Research showed that there was no “natural” separation of the races—but that didn’t mean the apartheid government had to like it.”
― Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
― Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
“Sometimes people who have been in a car crash describe their memory of the event as being like a black-and-white silent movie. That’s the way I remember that moment now. A bone stuck out of the rock. I knew instantly what it was: the clavicle, or collarbone, of a hominin. I knew that fossil shape—I had done my Ph.D. research on this bone. Still, I doubted myself. But as I took the rock from Matt and stared at the little S-shaped piece of bone, I thought, “What else could it be?” I turned the rock over to get a better angle. There was a hominin canine tooth and part of the jaw, as well as other bones. This was not just any hominin. And, at the very least, there were several parts of the skeleton embedded in this chunk of rock. Matt says I cursed. I don’t remember. Whatever I said or did, I knew for sure that both his life and mine were about to change forever.”
― Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
― Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
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