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The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

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I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

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South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

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There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

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To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

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We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

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Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

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When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: August 7th, 1903

Died: October 1st, 1972

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