Quotes About Paleoanthropologists

East Africa, with its natural rock exposures and relatively tolerable climate, has long been the preferred hunting ground of paleoanthropologists. Few have dared venture beyond that comfort zone.

They were fortunate as I had a couple of unusual mutations in my mtDNA, which makes it very recognizable, but it was still somewhat shocking to find that my DNA had left a contaminating trail across the museums of Europe! As Alan Cooper is jokily fond of accusing paleoanthropologists, in terms of the contamination of fossils he has tried to study, "You are all very dirty people!