AP BIOLOGY

CLASSIFICATION

CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMATES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
If you wanted to excavate fossils of the earliest human ancestors, to what country might you travel?
A
Australia
B
China
C
Kenya
D
Iceland
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fact 2: Africa’s oldest human remains were found in the Tugen Hills in Kenya, and go back 7 million years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Researchers working in Ethiopia have found a nearly complete cranium of this long-vanished member of the hominin group, which includes Homo sapiens and its close extinct relatives. The fossil, dated to 3.8 million years ago, reveals the never before seen face of A.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1995, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Meave Leakey and her team made a very important discovery at Lake Turkana, Kenya. They found fossils of what turned out to be an Australopithecus anamensis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Early humans lived in the Olorgesailie region, in what is now the southern Kenya, between 1.2 million and 490, 000 years ago. Excavations at Olorgesailie show the habitats and animals these early humans encountered, the handaxe tools they made, and the climate challenges they met.

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