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Lee Rogers Berger
Born:
December 22, 1965, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, U.S. (age 58)
Subjects Of Study:
Australopithecus africanus
Australopithecus sediba
hominin
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Lee Berger (born December 22, 1965, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, U.S.) American-born South African paleoanthropologist known for the discovery of the fossil skeletons of Australopithecus sediba, a primitive hominin species that some paleontologists believe is the most plausible link between the australopithecenes (genus Australopithecus) and humans (genus Homo). Berger was raised in Sylvania and Savannah, Georgia. After he received a B.A. in anthropology from Georgia Southern University in 1989, he studied under noted South African paleoanthropoligist Phillip V. Tobias at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Berger received a Ph.D. in paleoanthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1994 ...(100 of 787 words)

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