"In general, scientists have not seen it as their responsibility to have a public presence, and are now paying the price," says the associate professor of anthropology.
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During a recent trip to South Africa, Prof. Jeremy DeSilva was once again part of a fossil discovery that is shaping scientists’ understanding of human evolution.
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"Because their mechanism of birth would benefit from having helpers, it paints a picture of Australopithecus as a much more social animal, perhaps helping one another out during childbirth," DeSilva said. "The origins of midwifery may very well extend back over 3 million years."
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Jeremy DeSilva recalls that when he visited Wits in 2009 Berger offered to open the fossil vault. “A lot of people in our business are petrified to be wrong,” DeSilva told me. “You have to be willing to be wrong. What Lee is doing takes that to another level.”
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Dartmouth's Prof. DeSilva is one of the international team members working on the recent discovery that will fill a gap in the chain of human evolution.
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