Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds..

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self..

I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted w….

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years….

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of….

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where the….

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Afric….

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors..

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils..

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, t….

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plas….

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern m….

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as ….

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that th….

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each othe….

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunat….

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task..

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridor….

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture..

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for com….

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause.