Sue Dykes became interested in questions surrounding human origins while taking RTB Reasons Institute courses—an experience that inspired her to begin graduate studies in paleoanthropology. She earned a PhD in paleoanthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she conducted groundbreaking research on the classification of hominid teeth. A resident of South Africa, she lived near some of the most important sites in her field and interacted regularly with leaders in human origins research.
