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Lee Berger

Palaeoanthropologist; University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa · b. 1965

American-South African palaeoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand who led the discoveries of Australopithecus sediba at Malapa and Homo naledi in the Rising Star cave system. He has argued for rapid open publication of fossil material.

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Question What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?

There was very much a real feel that we probably pretty much discovered every major fossil field in Africa. And in fact, some scientists even wrote that down at the turn of the millennia. It wasn’t a great time to be proposing to explore and push new, because we hadn’t succeeded, theoretically, being given the chance. All the big discoveries were in old sites. ... I was still an extraordinary believer in that there was more out there to be discovered. I just wasn’t demonstrating.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 25 October 2012 source ↗

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