A mandible of Kenyapithecus africanus, with many of the teeth preserved, has been found at Kathwanga, Rusinga Island, Kenya. Previously the lower dentition of this species was unknown—except by ...

In this forsaken area in Turkana, lies a gem in the country’s history. The world turned its attention to the area, Fort Ternan, in 1961 when Dr Louis Leakey discovered the fossil of “a very early ...

Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor. But they have never been able to agree on the time at which man and apes began to take separate paths ...