Lee Berger has enjoyed a storied career, but criticism has hounded his recent effort to launch ancient human bones and return them safely to earth.
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsmade a recent trip to suborbital space in a gesture that has roiled the scientific community.finger bone soared into the heavens aboard a Virgin Galactic private spacecraft, alongside three commercial passengers, the third such crew in Virgin’s history.
While Berger’s son Matthew handed the fossils to Nash shortly before takeoff, it was Lee who secured a special export for them that allowed them to leave the country.to the South African Heritage Resources Agency, he called the mission “a sign of respect by humanity to our African ancestors who gave us the technology, skills and mind that allows this perhaps greatest expression of human technological achievement – the exploration of space.
These bones are among the best-documented in world, he argues, and have been “micro-CT scanned and surface-scanned at the highest resolutions possible,” indicating that virtual copies would remain safe on Earth.Australopithecus
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