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"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."
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"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."
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"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."
"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."
"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."
"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."
"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels."
"We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers."
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