Lee Berger
Lee Berger
Lee Rogers Bergeris an American-born South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is best known for his discovery of the Australopithecus sediba type site, Malapa; his leadership of Rising Star Expedition in the excavation of Homo naledi at Rising Star Cave; and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis...
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It shows that it was not only big cats our ancestors had to be afraid of. It was also these creatures from the air -- aerial bombardment if you will, that were stressors to our ancestors that grew and shaped and formed our behavior today.
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It was the ultimate 2 million-year-old cold case.
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These birds would have been after the most vulnerable members of the group.
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Most of my colleagues felt we had reached the end of the road in solving this problem. It was the ultimate two-million-year-old cold case!
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With a single depression fracture at the back of the head, we believed that the only animal capable of inflicting a wound like this was a raptor but we could not prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Everyone has the same right not to be sexually harassed. The issue is what remedies the legislature lays out. For employees, you have these remedies, and for non-employees, you have these other remedies.
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It just shows that you can never stop looking. Just because something has been studied for years doesn't mean that it can't still tell us new things.
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I think that if I took this into a court of law and put this (theory) forward, then we have conclusively and beyond a reasonable doubt proved that the African crowned eagle was the killer.
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I almost dropped down when I looked into the eyes of the skull as I saw the marks... they were perfect examples of eagle damage. Thousands of scientists, including myself, had overlooked this critical damage.
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These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared.