Remember that name ... no one else will. Yohannes Haile-Selassie
is Ethiopian ... reason enough to ignore. Not his namesake ... the late Emperor of Ethiopia. Not an afterthought to a team of remarkable scientific minds.
Just simply the Greatest Fossil Hunter Alive !
Consider this ... as a STUDENT he discovered the 2.5 million year old skull of a unknown hominid species. later as a fossil hunter in his native country ... found the fingers of Ardi. And now, as PhD, explains the fossils of the earliest human ancestor of all ... Ardipitecus ramidus. So sayeth the Plain Dealer who buried his bio ... although he is curator of physical anthropology at Cleveland's Natural History Museum. So no sayeth Time Magazine ... who mentioned his name not at all.
But let's play fair ... in previous articles the Plain Dealer gave this remarkable researcher his due. Wrote several stories ...making Haile-Selassie the focus of the rewriting of human history. But I can't find his name in the national press. I get touchy I guess that when the grand announcement is made to the world last week ... the name of the fossil--Ardi--is the lead while the Greatest Fossil Hunter in the world ... is lost in the story.
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