Kamoya Kimeu, the son of a goat herder whose preternatural gift for spotting and identifying petrified tibias, skull fragments and other ancient human remains among the arid, rocky badlands of East Africa won him acclaim as the world's greatest fossil hunter, died on July 20 in Nairobi, Kenya
A file photo of Kenyan anthropologist Kimeu Kamoya awarded by U.S President Ronald Reagan, October 01, 1985. Image: Diana Walker/Getty Images
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