BBCNEWS BBC News January 3, 2022 05:18:00
In his own country. so he raised money, he organised expeditions. he recruited good people. he recruited people who knew what they were doing in terms of dating rocks and interpreting rocks and recovering the fossils. the specimens that he was responsible for discovering really changed the way we think about human evolution and they are really the backbone of the evidence that we use to try and reconstruct our evolutionary history. huge contribution in it that respect. a man clearly of intellect but of amazing energy, and yet one thing i had not appreciated was the extent of his own health pro...