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

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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 ago.

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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.

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One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

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I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

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I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

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For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

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Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

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Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.

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Biography

Nationality: Kenyan

Type: Environmentalist

Born: December 19th, 1944

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