BusinessDay - Sediba discovery breathes new life into a ‘dead-end’ science: "Despite the excitement about the finding, Prof Berger says a decade ago people thought the palaeosciences were — literally — a dead end, and there was nothing left to discover.
"There are seven or eight partial skeletons in the world…. And we’re unveiling two more … and we probably have three or four or more on the site," he says.
Prof Berger’s eyes twinkle and his hands flutter with excitement as he describes the other fossils: "This is what you dream about in first-year anthropology. Ninety- nine percent (of palaeontologists) will never discover anything and we’ve found two skeletons and there are more." He talks enthusiastically about his work: from what this discovery means for current theories of human evolution, to the role his son and dog played. But he does not mention that those 220 bones uncovered in Malapa have thrown the palaeosciences in SA a lifeline"
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