Rift

In 1960, Dr. Jonathan Leakey discovered a fossilized jaw fragment in the Olduvai Gorge of the East African Riftthe first specimen of what is now known as Homo habilis, an anthropoid (human-like) creature that some think may have been a human ancestora debatable point at best. H. habilis is thought to have lived around two million years ago.In 1999, a team of paleoanthropologists went to an area ne...