Complex sentence: Lyall attended boarding school in Cape Town, and in 1958 earned degrees in botany and zoology before securing an apprenticeship in Palaentology under Raymond Dart, leading onto anthropological studies in Germany and the Netherlands.
Split into simpler sentences: Lyall attended boarding school in Cape Town, and in 1958 earned degrees in botany and zoology. Lyall secured an apprenticeship in Palaentology under Raymond Dart, leading onto anthropological studies in Germany and the Netherlands.