Word: olduvai
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...with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering th digs of Louis and Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge. Buts his prose pales against his vivid photographs...
...remembered it, she rushed in crying, "I've got him! I've got him! I've got him!" What my mother Mary had discovered were the fragments of a fossil skull that was later to be named Zinjanthropus boisei. It was to rivet world attention on the Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and on the work of my parents...
...arrived at Olduvai a day after the skull was found. My parents' simple camp seemed to radiate the excitement of the moment, and I don't recall ever seeing my parents in such high spirits. The skull that my mother recovered was in many pieces, but she and my father were able to piece it back together. It was the first really significant find at Olduvai; indeed, it was the only well-preserved fossil hominid to have been found outside South Africa, several thousand miles to the south. Unlike the South African sites, which lacked distinct geological layers, Olduvai offered...
Dolly Shoemaker-Levy 9 25 million transistor 1 billion Colossus 20 ENIAC quasar 71 Olduvai Gorge 16 million 6701 Valium penicillin 500 billion Bakelite RU-486 Lascaux 41.22 cyclotron 14 Deep Blue 10.5 million 550 Kon-Tiki amniocentesis...
...FIRST DISCOVERED] Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania...