One Scientist's Quest for the Origin of Our Species
@article{Gibbons2002OneSQ, title={One Scientist's Quest for the Origin of Our Species}, author={A. Gibbons}, journal={Science}, year={2002}, volume={298}, pages={1708 - 1711} }
POITIERS, FRANCE--
Years of effort in hostile territory have finally paid off for French paleontologist Michel Brunet, who discovered a fossil that might be the first member of the human family--although not everyone is convinced. In a field peopled by celebrity scientists, it seemed to many that Brunet came out of nowhere; the find of the century was made by a man trained not in hominids but in paleontology. Now, at 62, after a life of being little known outside his field, he is suddenly in… CONTINUE READING
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