The Elephants Were Being Slaughtered In Masses.

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.

Natural Selection Operates According To Immediate Cirumstances And Not Toward A Long-term Goal. Homo Sapiens Did Eventually Evolve As A Descendant Of The First Humans, But There Was Nothing Inevitable About It.

Scientific Innovations Continually Provide Us With New Means Of Analyzing The Finds.

For Three Million Years We Were Hunter-gatherers, And It Was Through The Evolutionary Pressures Of That Way Of Life That A Brain So Adaptable And So Creative Eventually Emerged. Today We Stand With The Brains Of Hunter-gatherers In Our Heads, Looking Out On A Modern World Made Comfortable For Some By The Fruits Of Human Inventiveness, And Made Miserable For Others By The Scandal Of Deprivation In The Midst Of Plenty.