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"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."
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"You know, I'm really starting to hate the insect life around here. Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off!"
"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."
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"We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man."
"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."
"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."
"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."
"One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult."
"Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants."
"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils."
"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."
"I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out."
"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task."
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