guno
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- KENYA THE CRADLE OF MANKIND
- Kenya has the largest number of fossil human remains appr. 1000 individuals than any other country in Africa.
- Kenya has the oldest human remains going back to 7 million year old from Turgen Hills, Baringo (oldest in Ethiopia = 4.5 million years ; S.Africa ca 3 million years, Tanzania = 2 million years.
- Kenya has some of the most complete skeletons e.g Turkana Boy (1.6 Million years), which provided a great wealth of information regarding early human physiology than anywhere in the world.
- Kenya is endowed with many prehistory sites scattered all along the Rift Valley (north to south) and western Kenya.
- Kenya has many earliest ape sites particularly in western Kenya. These apes are ancestors for earliest humans. Ethiopia has just a handful of these earliest sites thus making Kenya the probable place where transition from ape-like to human-like beings occurred.