Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved ...

In a new discovery near Kenya’s Lake Turkana, scientists have uncovered ... offering unprecedented insights into how these early humans interacted with their environment and potentially with ...

Sophisticated Pyrotechnology in the Ice Age: This Is How Humans Made Fire Tens of Thousands ... near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species ...

A remarkable discovery in northern Kenya has provided the first direct evidence that two early human relatives ... in ancient lakebed sediments near Lake Turkana, an area known for its rich ...

Once they had thought the development of a large brain or the making and use of stone tools was the pivotal early evolutionary ... year-old hominid near Lake Turkana in Kenya, recently reported.

Ancient hominins lived along its shores, and early humans hunted ... the Omo’s eons-old flow and starve the lake. In the most dire scenarios, Turkana will over the years slowly shrivel and ...

Dated to between 1.5 and 1.6 mya, and discovered on the western side of Lake Turkana Kenya in the mid 1980s by Kamoya Kimeu, leader of the paleontological team dubbed the ‘Hominid Gang’.

It has been very valuable in the reconstruction of the paleo-environment of the entire Lake Turkana Basin. The Kobi Fora deposits contain pre-human, mammalian, molluscan and other fossil remains and ...