"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."

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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."

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"Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Without hardships, how could we know hope?"

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"Tomorrow could be just few steps away - a dream, yesterday the fucking nightmare..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

Joyce Meyer, American Author

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"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here."

Investment

"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."

People

"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."

Life

"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."

Years

"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils."

History

"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people."

Age

"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."

Now

"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."

Being

"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."

Insects

"I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils."

World