where humanity began?

[Danzig]

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151...umanitys-birth

absolutely fascinating stuff. at least to me it is....


'During the wetter times, it was an ideal place for early humans to live, and when they died it was a perfect place for their remains to fossilise. That's because Lake Turkana lies in a volcanic area, where tectonic activity can move Earth's crust and create new layers. It is within these layers that fossils from different time periods are found.

"Those are all great circumstances where you can have bones that get buried in the sand and that becomes sandstone," says Fred Spoor of University College London in the UK. Periods of heavy rainfall have since eroded many of these layers, exposing the fossils more clearly.'




http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151...ding-shaped-us

on if we're a hybrid..which i expect we are.

[GenuineRisk]

It is a fascinating subject, for sure! I had to record an anthropology text last year, and while I did not love having to stop every five sentences to look up the pronunciation of our ancestors' Latin names, I learned a lot.