Prof Lee R Berger
@leerberger.bsky.social
Explorer in Residence, The National Geographic Society https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/lee-r-berger#c1af6ba3-0859-41e9-a4d6-6b3491785ea8
Here’s something you don’t see every day (or in fact ever) the bigger bone is a hominin phalanx. The little round bone, a sesamoid bone nearly in anatomical position. 2mya from Malapa - A sediba. Beautiful preparation by one of our outstanding preparators Bonele of the Nat Geo Rising Star Project.
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here’s something you don’t see every day (or in fact ever) the bigger bone is a hominin phalanx. The little round bone, a sesamoid bone nearly in anatomical position. 2mya from Malapa - A sediba. Beautiful preparation by one of our outstanding preparators Bonele of the Nat Geo Rising Star Project.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Check out this video, "homo naledi burial" share.google/WinNwiOxOVqJ...
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September 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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New Homo naledi evidence supports intentional burial practices
Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, have published their most extensive evidence yet of deliberat...
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September 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Like our team, you get to be the first people in almost 2 million years to see the whole palate of the Holotype of Australopithecus sediba exposed - thanks Zandile!
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Like our team, you get to be the first people in almost 2 million years to see the whole palate of the Holotype of Australopithecus sediba exposed - thanks Zandile!
For greater understanding of the importance of recognizing culture and complex behaviors in a small-brained hominin elifesciences.org/articles/89125 Our new paper out in elife
Meaning-making behavior in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications
Evidence for H. naledi and increasing recognition of meaning-making behavior across the later Pleistocene suggests that the hominin emotional, socio-cognitive niche is broader and more significant tha...
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September 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
For greater understanding of the importance of recognizing culture and complex behaviors in a small-brained hominin elifesciences.org/articles/89125 Our new paper out in elife
Very excited about new photographic scales from @nationalgeographic.bsky.social for archeologists, palaeontologists, photographers, geologists and forensic scientists! First Nat Geo Society scales ever! Enjoy!
July 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Very excited about new photographic scales from @nationalgeographic.bsky.social for archeologists, palaeontologists, photographers, geologists and forensic scientists! First Nat Geo Society scales ever! Enjoy!
A fantastic interview on eNCA news with Tebogo Makhubela celebrating his National Geographic #Wayfinder award! Well deserved and enjoy listening to the future of human origins research in #Africa - Tebogo is active on LinkedIn under Tebogo Vincent Makhubela follow him! www.enca.com/videos/wayfi...
June 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A fantastic interview on eNCA news with Tebogo Makhubela celebrating his National Geographic #Wayfinder award! Well deserved and enjoy listening to the future of human origins research in #Africa - Tebogo is active on LinkedIn under Tebogo Vincent Makhubela follow him! www.enca.com/videos/wayfi...
www.facebook.com/share/1Ajo7V... here’s some fun one of @nationalgeographic.bsky.social latest explorers as a superhero!
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June 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
www.facebook.com/share/1Ajo7V... here’s some fun one of @nationalgeographic.bsky.social latest explorers as a superhero!
The future of exploration and discovery in good hands in South Africa and across the planet! news.nationalgeographic.org/the-national... @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
The National Geographic Society Honors 15 Visionaries: Meet the Recipients of the 2025 Wayfinder Award Presented by Kia
Celebrating 15 Explorers transforming how we understand nature, culture and the future of our planet
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June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The future of exploration and discovery in good hands in South Africa and across the planet! news.nationalgeographic.org/the-national... @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
I am proud to know you! Welcome to the yellow border, welcome to the family and sharing many great explorations, discoveries, scientific endeavours and moments of fun long into the future. Well done! Never Stop Exploring www.goodthingsguy.com/people/sa-sc... @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
SA Scientist Named National Geographic Explorer for Fossil Research
Dr Tebogo Makhubela has been named a National Geographic Explorer and recipient of the 2025 Wayfinder Award, putting South African
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June 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I am proud to know you! Welcome to the yellow border, welcome to the family and sharing many great explorations, discoveries, scientific endeavours and moments of fun long into the future. Well done! Never Stop Exploring www.goodthingsguy.com/people/sa-sc... @nationalgeographic.bsky.social
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Fossil fun day Monday
June 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Fossil fun day Monday
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So many connections between star knowledge and ancient societies. Some have been embodied in monuments like Stonehenge, but the knowledge of they sky and its relation to natural and social cycles is vastly older.
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When did our ancestors start looking up to the stars?
Changes in the sky have been important to peoples throughout the world. That connection may go back much further than our species.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
So many connections between star knowledge and ancient societies. Some have been embodied in monuments like Stonehenge, but the knowledge of they sky and its relation to natural and social cycles is vastly older.
www.johnhawks.net/p/when-did-o...
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Before Keneiloe Molopyane jumped into the work at Gladysvale - I did this video during Covid about the history behind this interesting site - good things are soon to be seen from the latest work at this site! www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-...
2020-05 - The impact of Gladysvale - Wits University
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May 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Before Keneiloe Molopyane jumped into the work at Gladysvale - I did this video during Covid about the history behind this interesting site - good things are soon to be seen from the latest work at this site! www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-...
Take a look at this beautiful mandible from Swartrkans in South Africa - Skw 5. It’s what we presently call a Paranthropus robustus. Notice the “robust” mandible, large teeth and molarization of the premolars. What a lovely specimen of an ancient hominin likely between 1.5 and 2 million years old!
May 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Take a look at this beautiful mandible from Swartrkans in South Africa - Skw 5. It’s what we presently call a Paranthropus robustus. Notice the “robust” mandible, large teeth and molarization of the premolars. What a lovely specimen of an ancient hominin likely between 1.5 and 2 million years old!
A long-form article, a lesson in why hiding fossils from colleagues and not using an open access/collaborative policies and leaving the privilege of working with original fossils only to a few is a historically bad idea for paleoanthropology www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A long-form article, a lesson in why hiding fossils from colleagues and not using an open access/collaborative policies and leaving the privilege of working with original fossils only to a few is a historically bad idea for paleoanthropology www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A new phylogeny published! Australopithecus sediba gives rise to X-Men (in the Marvel Universe at least). @marvel @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social @marvelentertainment.tumblr.com.web.brid.gy #xmen #Sediba #fossil #phylogenetics #malapa
May 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A new phylogeny published! Australopithecus sediba gives rise to X-Men (in the Marvel Universe at least). @marvel @marvelcomicshqs.bsky.social @marvelentertainment.tumblr.com.web.brid.gy #xmen #Sediba #fossil #phylogenetics #malapa
The Stw 431 pelvis is one of the few partial skeletons from Member 4 Sterkfontein. It has an unusual, flattened pelvis and is typically assigned to Australopithecus africanus and by various estimates thought to be around 2.3 million years old. #fossils #exploration #australopithecus #hominid
May 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Stw 431 pelvis is one of the few partial skeletons from Member 4 Sterkfontein. It has an unusual, flattened pelvis and is typically assigned to Australopithecus africanus and by various estimates thought to be around 2.3 million years old. #fossils #exploration #australopithecus #hominid
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The Case for a Fluid View of Sex | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lies...
The Case for a Fluid View of Sex
Fuentes dismantles old assumptions by mapping out what science actually shows about male–female similarities and differences—and it’s far messier than the binary.
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May 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Case for a Fluid View of Sex | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lies...
MH-2 was discovered on Sept 4, 2008 at the site of Malapa. The approximately 2 million year old hominin partial skeleton has produced perhaps the most complete undistorted shoulder arm and hand of any ancient fossil human relative yet discovered. #Malapa #fossils #paleoanthropology #sediba
May 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
MH-2 was discovered on Sept 4, 2008 at the site of Malapa. The approximately 2 million year old hominin partial skeleton has produced perhaps the most complete undistorted shoulder arm and hand of any ancient fossil human relative yet discovered. #Malapa #fossils #paleoanthropology #sediba