Saturday, April 10, 2010

New Hominid Species, Au. Sediba, Discovered in South Africa - NYTimes.com

New Hominid Species, Au. Sediba, Discovered in South Africa - NYTimes.com
On Aug. 15, 2008, when Matthew called his father to look at the bones he had found, Dr. Berger began cursing wildly as he neared his son. The boy mistook his father’s profanity for anger. But from 15 feet, Dr. Berger, who had done his Ph.D. thesis on hominid shoulder bones, among them the clavicle, was astounded to see that his son had in his hands a clavicle with the unmistakable shape of a hominid.

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