Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Luck of Discovery - Lee Berger

Paleo-anthropologist Lee Berger was walking with his son and his dog just 30 miles from Johannesberg, South Africa, near a dig site when his son found a fossilized clavicle from an Australopithecus sediba. The two million year old human was remarkably well-preserved and led to the excavation of a site that contained several other individuals. Berger was shocked at the find and assures Boyd he knew it was a pre-hominid fossil, because "antelope don't have clavicles."

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