To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

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.

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.

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized.

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