I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

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Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

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I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

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Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

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To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

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Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

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We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

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The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

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