This year, the Stirling lecture will be given by Professor Lee Berger, who will present two of his most recent discoveries for which he was recently named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people. As a professor of human evolution and National Geographic Explorer Professor Berger has been searching South Africa and the Cradle of Humankind for over two decades for the fossil evidence of human evolution. In the last 10 years, he has discovered two of the most important new fossil human species: Australopithecus sediba (important for its combination of primitive and derived skeletal morphology) and Homo naledi (important for its combination of early human skeletal morphology yet with evidence for deliberate disposal of its dead). Professor Berger will speak about the challenging excavation of these important fossils and how they are changing our understanding of the human evolutionary story. This lecture will take place in Keynes Lecture Theatre 1 at 18:30 and will be followed by a Q&A. You can join the conversation on Twitter using #UniKentEvents.