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The skull in the rock : how a scientist, a boy, and Google Earth opened a new window on human origins
The story behind one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time, explaining its significance for understanding human evolution and how it is shaping the thinking of the scientific community.
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Child Finds Fossil
Nine year-old Matthew Berger dashed after his dog, Tau, into the high grass one sunny morning, tripped over a log, and stumbled onto a major archaeological discovery in South Africa. Scientists have announced that he had found the bones of a new hominid species that lived almost two million years ago during the fateful, still mysterious period spanning the emergence of the human family. Lee R. Berger, an American paleoanthropologist, who had been searching for hominid bones just a hill-and-a-half away for almost two decades, with the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and his fellow researchers have since found much more of the boy's skeleton, including his extraordinarily well-preserved skull, and three other individuals.
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Ape-length arms, human-shaped hands; New species in human lineage's evolution is found in South Africa
[...] the discovery is likely to shed light on a key transition in which pre-human primates took to the ground, eventually acquiring modern appearance and behavior. Berger said that Google Earth helped him recognize a series of unexplored caves along a geologic fault northeast of Johannesburg and that the Internet application \"is really the reason I could make this discovery.\"
Newspaper Article
New Fossil Find Stirs Evolutionary Excitement
Besides two skulls reported last year, researchers led by Dr. Berger have since retrieved an almost complete right hand, a foot and a pelvis.
Newspaper Article
Unearthing Human Ancestor Is Child's Play in South Africa
Scientists not involved in the research are debating whether the bones belong to the Homo or Australopithecus genus, but most agree that the discovery of the skeletons at the Malapa site here in the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage site where dolomitic limestone caves contain fossils of ancient animals and hominids, is a major advance in the early fossil history of hominids.
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REVIEW --- Mind & Matter: Mysteries Raised By a New Protohuman 'Star'
In September, the paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand and colleagues announced one of the most important finds ever made in the search for human fossil remains: some 1,500 bones from a South African cave complex called Rising Star.
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U.S. News: Puzzling Hominid Had Human Traits
In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.
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Little Foot steps up
With much less fanfare than that triggered by Lee Berger's Australopithecus sediba finds in South Africa's Malapa site, hominid's nearly complete skeleton has been excavated by University of the Witwatersrand anthropologist Ronald Clarke in the nearby Sterkfontein Caves. Clarke's take on hominid evolution in southern Africa differs radically from Berger's. Clarke's opinion is informed by his own discovery, which he assigns to a new species: Australopithecus prometheus. Clarke says A. sediba has nothing to do with the origin of the Homo genus and that he don't claim A. prometheus does, either. Bower highlights Clarke's finds.
Magazine Article
The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
Ford reviews The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Windon on Human Origins by Lee R. Berger and Marc Aronson.
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