Professor Lee Berger | 19 September, 2011 00:04
Professor Lee Berger with the cranium of Au Sediba, one of the fossils of early human life Picture: WITS UNIVERSITY
The recent global unveiling of the latest evidence pertaining to the fossil Australopithecus sediba has without a doubt shifted the international interest in palaeo-sciences, including the study of distant human relatives, to South Africa.
News of the discovery of the two skeletons featured in 99 countries across the world last April, and indeed there is significant interest from almost every continent about the findings revealed, which suggests the fossil is a good candidate to be the ancestor of our own genus - the genus homo.
With regard to distant human origins, the southern and eastern parts of Africa are the principal fields of human origins research, particularly South Africa."
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