- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.
- Intellectually
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020