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Lee Rogers Berger (born December 22, 1965) is an American-born South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. [1] [2] [3] He is best known for his discovery of the Australopithecus sediba type site, Malapa; [4] his leadership of Rising Star Expedition in the excavation of Homo naledi at Rising Star Cave; [5] and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis.
The first fossil find was a right clavicle, MH1 (UW88-1), in Malapa Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, discovered by 9-year-old Matthew Berger on 15 August 2008 while exploring the digsite headed by his father, South African palaeoanthropologist Lee Rogers Berger.
Lee Rogers Berger: 1983 Internationally renowned paleoanthropologist, physical anthropologist and archeologist [40] [41] Sam Berns † 2014 Suffered from progeria; helped raise awareness of the disease [42] Richard J. Berry: 1978 c. Member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (2007–2009); Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (2009–) [43]
Cross-section of the Rising Star Cave system . The Underground Astronauts is the name given to a group of six scientists, Hannah Morris, Marina Elliott, Becca Peixotto, Alia Gurtov, K. Lindsay (then Eaves) Hunter, [1] and Elen Feuerriegel, who excavated the bones of Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system in Gauteng, South Africa.
On September 24, they returned to the chamber and took photographs that they showed to South African palaeoanthropologists Pedro Boshoff and Lee Rogers Berger on October 1. [2] Berger assembled an excavation team that included Hunter and Tucker, the so-called "Underground Astronauts". [3]
In 2018, palaeoanthropologists Lee Rogers Berger and John D. Hawks considered "A. prometheus" a nomen nudum ("naked name"), and has not been properly described with diagnostic characteristics which separate it from A. africanus. [14] At the time, these remains were dated to 3.3 million years ago in the Late Pliocene.
Matthew Berger and Lee Rogers Berger: University of the Witwatersrand: KNM-ER 1813: 1.90 Homo habilis: 1973 Kenya: Kamoya Kimeu: KNM-ER 1470: 1.90 Homo rudolfensis: 1972 Kenya: Bernard Ngeneo [36] SK 48: 2.25–1.80 Paranthropus robustus: 1948 Swartkrans, South Africa: Robert Broom: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History SK 46 [37] 2.25–1 ...
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