Lee R. Berger, a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, is the Research Professor in Human Origins and the Public Understanding of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a founder of the Palaeoanthropological Scientific Trust, the largest nonprofit organization in Africa supporting research into human origins. He is the director of one of the largest paleontological projects in history, leading over 100 researchers in investigations of the Malapa site in South Africa. He has authored more than 200 scholarly and popular wo
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coex... SEE MORE