Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own ta…
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