Wits University have rightly been treating the discovery of “the Rosetta Stone of paleoanthropology”  by Prof Lee Berger,  as a pubic relations coup. The discovery, as just about everybody must know, consists of an unsually well preserved set of fossilised remains of a 11-13 year old male hominid together with an older (25 – 30 years) female. It is hypothosized the the pair fell to their deaths searching for water in the vicinity of a sinkhole in the Cradle of Humankind area more than 1.9 million years ago. The significance of the discovery is massive, because it suggests a new line of ancestry for human beings, the Australopithecus sediba.  But the publicity has been spurred by the remarkable conincidence that the fossilised boy was actually discovered by Berger’s  9 year old son, Matthew.  An offshoot of the publicity campaign has been a competition to suggest a name for the fossil boy.  Today the winning choice was announced. The boy will be known as Karabo, which means "answer" in Setswana thanks to an entry by Omphemetse Keepile, a 17 year old pupil at St. Mary’s School in Waverly, Johannesburg.  Interestingly the "vast majority" of the entries to the competition were sent via Mxit.