Cranium C is the Australopithecus afarensis, found in East Africa, with the earliest existence in 3.9 " 3 million years ago. ... Cranium F is Australopithecus africanus found in South Africa, with the earliest first fossil evidence dating to around 3 " 2 million years ago. ... "Many scientists consider either this species or Australopithecus afarensis of East Africa to represent a viable candidate for the ancestor of the genus Homo. " The first fossil, Taung child, was discovered in Taung, South Africa in 1924. ... The second fossil was discovered in Sterkfontein, South Africa i...

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It's thought that the first Homo Habilis initially lived in open bush and savannah country in East Africa. It is thought that they were not capable of migrating out of Africa since no remains of Homo habilis have been found somewhere else. ... They first lived in Africa where the first finds were in Rift Valley of Africa and in South Africa. ... Homo Sapiens: Homo Sapiens evolved after the Homo Erectus about 300,000 to 400,000 years ago in Africa. ... After being in Africa, eventually, they started migrating to the Middle East, Europe, and Asia where they replaced Homo erectus populat...

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It was found at Omo in East Africa; skull size and shape are completely modern. Shown beside the skull are some characteristic tools of Homo sapiens sapiens, all from East or South Africa: a bola for throwing at small game, flake tools, and a long flake blade and the core from which such blades have been struck. ...

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It is currently widely accepted that as modern human beings emerged from Africa some 100,000 years ago, this new species spread eastward, through Asia, even to Australia, before any of its members entered what must, to people from a warm continent, have seemed a cold and inhospitable environment. ... After this happened about 35,000 years ago, some 1200 generations were to pass before civilization, in the form of farming, spreading from the Middle East, began to supplant the hunter-gatherer economy of the Stone Age inhabitants of Europe. ... It was westward to this agricultural society &qu...

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