Vancouver archeologist played key role in discovery of species distantly related to modern human

After squeezing through a tiny passageway into the subterranean chamber below, Marina Elliott turned her head from side to side. Everywhere she looked, she caught flashes of the same thing: bone after bone after bone. The hollow was deep down in South Africa’s Rising Star Cave, where the Simon Fraser University PhD student and a team of five other female scientists were searching for evidence of new branches in the human family tree.