A History of Research on Human Evolution in South Africa from 1924 to 2016 by John Francis Thackeray

“…The pioneering work was continued by Bob Brain, Elisabeth Vrba, Phillip Tobias, Ron Clarke, Francis Thackeray and their teams. Within recent decades many important discoveries have been made by young palaeontologists such as Dominique Gommery and Frank Sénégas (Bolt's Farm Cave System), José Braga (Kromdraai), Travis Pickering (Swartkrans), Lee Berger (Malapa associated with A. sediba and Rising Star associated H. naledi), Colin Menter (Drimolen) and a growing number of young individuals with access to micro CT scanners and synchrotrons which permit studies of internal anatomy. …”
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