Flat-faced Man of Kenya
Dr. Leakey's research team at Lake Turkana, Kenya made a discovery in 1999 that completely changed the understanding of early human ancestry. They found a 3.5-million-year-old skull and partial jaw thought to belong to a new branch of the early human family. She named the find Kenyanthropus platyops, or flat-faced man of Kenya.
Read more about this topic: Meave Leakey
Famous quotes containing the word man:
“A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense,
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
With profits of the mind, study, and fast.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)