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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid—discoveries that stand to alter our fundamental understanding of what makes us human. So what does it all mean? Join Berger on the adventure of a lifetime as he explores the Rising Star cave system and begins the complicated process of explaining these extraordinary finds—finds that force a rethinking of human evolution, and discoveries that Berger calls "the Rosetta stone of the human mind."
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Summary
Summary
In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid—discoveries that stand to alter our fundamental understanding of what makes us human. So what does it all mean? Join Berger on the adventure of a lifetime as he explores the Rising Star cave system and begins the complicated process of explaining these extraordinary finds—finds that force a rethinking of human evolution, and discoveries that Berger calls "the Rosetta stone of the human mind."
Author
Author Bio: Lee Berger
Lee R. Berger, a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, is the Research Professor in Human Origins and the Public Understanding of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a founder of the Palaeoanthropological Scientific Trust, the largest nonprofit organization in Africa supporting research into human origins. He is the director of one of the largest paleontological projects in history, leading over 100 researchers in investigations of the Malapa site in South Africa. He has authored more than 200 scholarly and popular works. His research has been featured three times on the cover of Science magazine and has been named among the top 100 science stories of the year by Time, Scientific American, and Discover. He has appeared in television documentaries on subjects related to archaeology, paleoanthropology, and natural history, as well as on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered, and PBS’s News Hour and Alan Alda’s Scientific American Frontiers. He was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015 and 2016’s Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year.
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Author Bio: John Hawks
John Hawks is the Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of a widely read paleoanthropology blog, johnhawks.net. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1994 with degrees in French, English, and anthropology. He received both his MA and PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah, he moved to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is a member of the anthropology department, teaching courses including human evolution, biological anthropology, and hominid paleoecology.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Runtime: | 5.72 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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