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Virtual Guide | EvolutionAfrica, the cradle of humanity and civilization"The ancestors of all humanity evolved in Africa. The earliest evidence of their existence had been found in East Africa, north and south of the Equator; the evidence consists of fossil bones, stone tools, and most poignant of all, a trail of footprints preserved in the petrified surface of a mud path. Three individuals - two adults and one juvenile - walked across the pan more than 3,6 million years ago... towards the woods and the grasslands which are known as Serengeti plains. (Laetoli, Tanzania)." John Reader, "Africa". 1998.EvolutionIn 1959 the family Leakey, Louis, May and later Richard Leakey, and their teams found the Australopithecus Boisei of Homo Habilis, dated 2,9 million years of age, in the Olduvai Gorge of Tanzania and near Koobi Fora in northern Kenya.In 1925, Dr. Raymond Dart pioneered the discovery of fossil hominid with the discovery of Australopithecus Africanus, estimated at 2 million years of age, was too advanced to be an ape but not quite human. It turned out to be an ancestor of humans. In 1934, Dr. Robert Boom found another ancestral human, the Australopithecus Robustus, estimated at 700,000 years of age. 
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