Lee Rogers Berger
Lee Rogers Berger is an Americanborn South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic ExplorerinResidence. He is best known for his discovery of the Australopithecus sediba type site, Malapa his leadership of Rising Star Expedition in the excavation of Homo naledi at Rising Star Cave and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis.
Berger was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, in 1965 but was raised outside of Sylvania, Georgia in the United States. As a youth, Berger was active in the Boy Scouts, Future Farmers of America, and president of Georgia 4H. In 1984, Berger was named Georgias Youth Conservationist of the Year for his work in conserving the threatened gopher tortoise. He is a Distinguished Eagle Scout and received the Boy Scouts of America Honor Medal for saving a life in 1987.
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