Book Review: In the Footsteps of Eve

"At the best of times, paleoanthropology, because it is such an interpretative science, leads to personal rivalries. Entire careers can hang on a discovery, reputations can be made or destroyed in the subsequent analyses, and funding more often than not follows personalities rather than institutions."

On the advice of two grand masters of paleoanthropology, Johanson and Richard Leakey, Lee R Berger decided that South Africa was the place to go to study the origins of humankind. It was a chance to work with actual fossils since both Ethiopia and Kenya were already bursting with paleontologists.

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