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Lee Berger

South African paleoanthropologist
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Also known as: Lee Rogers Berger
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Lee Rogers Berger
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December 22, 1965, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, U.S. (age 59)

Lee Berger (born December 22, 1965, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, U.S.) is an 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 ...(100 of 789 words)

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