Human Origins: Australopithecus
The Ancients
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The Origins of Australopiths
Before two million years ago all of human evolution happened in Africa. We really don't have any credible fossils some claims have been made for certain specimens but no credible evidence that any homilins actually lives outside Africa. But strictly speaking before something like 1.9 or whatever let's say 2 million because you of course can't find everything. A later group we find cave sites in South Africa and that tends on the whole by most conventional ways of looking at the dating that we've done for those fossils they are a younger somewhat younger group. And it shows that thousands of miles away from where we knew our Stropithecus lived suddenly it pops up in the middle of the Sahara just because the
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