RNZ: Nine To Noon | 5 November 2020 | 0h 31m | Listen Later
Interview with Kermit Pattison about his book Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind. Discusses the discovery of the 4.4 million-year-old bones of Ardi, thought to be the oldest known skeleton of a human ancestor; and the obsession and professional feuding which centred around whether humans were descended from an ancestor that resembled today’s chimpanzee.