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Did climate change jump-start human evolution in East Africa?
2015-11-04 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IT`S been called the cradle of humanity, but the significance of East Africa`s Turkana basin in human history is still unclear. Now some ancient herbivore teeth are revealing the region`s special climate around the time our genus Homo first appeared. Turkana, part of the Great Rift Valley straddling Kenya and Ethiopia, has been a hallowed site for the study of human evolution ever since Maeve and Richard Leakey began uncovering fossils there in the 1960s. Ranging from Australopithecus to our own...
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