tly as 1991, in textbook tages of Evolution, C.

    Loring Brace stuck doggedly to t, ackno one evolutionary deadend, t australopited a straigon of development so far, t on to a younger, fres seems certain t many of trails t didn’t come to anything.

    Luckily for us, one did—a group of tool users,  of no, it existed from about 1.8 million years ago to possibly as recently as ty thousandor so years ago.

    According to tus is tcame before er; everyt came after  to , t to use fire, t to fasools, t toleave evidence of campsites, t to look after tus remely smembers long-limbed and lean, very strong (mucronger telligence to spread successfully over o otus must errifyingly po, and gifted.

    Erectus or of its day,” according to Alan alker of Penn StateUniversity and one of ties. If you o look one in tmigo be  “you  connect. You’d be prey.”

    According to alker, it   the brain of a baby.

    Altus  for almost a century it tered fragments—not enougo come even close to making one full skeleton. So it until an extraordinary discovery in Africa in t its importance—or, at t, possible importance—as a precursor species for modern ed.

    te valley of Lake turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in Kenya is no productive sites for early  for a very long time no one  to look t  edover t  mig. A teamco investigate, but at first found note one afternoon KamoyaKimeu, Leakey’s most renoo yield muc t ofrespect for Kimeu’s instincts and to tonis found a nearly complete usskeleton