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Lee R. Berger is an American-born South African paleoanthropologist whose research concerns human evolution in Africa. He led work associated with the identification of Australopithecus sediba from fossils found at Malapa and Homo naledi from the Rising Star cave system, both in South Africa. His pr...
Lee R. Berger is an American-born paleoanthropologist long based at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He led the teams that discovered and described Australopithecus sediba at Malapa Cave in 2008 and Homo naledi within the Rising Star Cave system in 2013. His fieldwo...
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High-profile hominin discoveries generated major attention and research, but interpretations and excavation practices remain unusually contentious.
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