Professor Ron Clarke and his team at Wits University, South Africa, excavated "Little Foot" -- an "australopithecus" or kind of an ape-man that changed our understanding of pre-human evolution.
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Professor Ron Clarke and his team at Wits University, South Africa, excavated "Little Foot" -- an "australopithecus" or kind of an ape-man that changed our understanding of pre-human evolution.
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Outside Johannesburg, South Africa, are more than a dozen ancient fossil sites, in an area known as the "Cradle of Humankind."<br />Deep in this cave in the area there are bones from walking beings millions of years old.
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Outside Johannesburg, South Africa, are more than a dozen ancient fossil sites, in an area known as the "Cradle of Humankind."
Deep in this cave in the area there are bones from walking beings millions of years old.
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The skulls of ancient walking hominids found in South Africa.
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The skulls of ancient walking hominids found in South Africa.
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Along Africa's southern coastline new artifacts are being unearthed that reveal modern human culture developed here.
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Along Africa's southern coastline new artifacts are being unearthed that reveal modern human culture developed here.
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An estimation of how the world's population migrated out of Africa around 100,000 years ago.
Tracing mankind's ancestors —
An estimation of how the world's population migrated out of Africa around 100,000 years ago.