The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins

by Lee Berger and Marc Aronson

Book Overview

From the fossil hunter who discovered the Homo naledi fossils in September 2015, this book is an amazing account of Lee Berger's 2008 hunt -- with the help of his curious 9-year-old son -- for a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been direct ancestors of modern humans. The discovery of two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and young male, known as Australopiitecus sediba,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426310102
• ISBN13: 9781426310102
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9