BBC AFRICA
Turkana Boy From Kenya.
By Melissa Hogenboom
7 December 2015

Our ancient human ancestors were an elusive lot. Their remains are literally thin on the ground, and even when fossils are unearthed it is rare for them to be complete. Sometimes they must be pieced together from dozens of fragments.

That is why a staggering find in 1984 excited the entire field, and continues to do so today over 30 years later.

It was a skeleton of a young boy, discovered at Lake Turkana in the deserts of northern Kenya. He died when he was about eight years old and his bones sank into the sediments of the lake, where they were preserved for 1.5 million years. He was, and is, the most complete early-human fossil ever discovered.

Yet "Turkana Boy" is just one of many early human fossils discovered near the lake. Together they span four million years of human evolution. This one spot has told us a huge amount about where we came from and how our ancestors lived.

Continue reading @ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151207-the-remote-lake-that-tells-the-story-of-humanitys-birth

makahlj2:
1.5 mln. years ago? This is a really ancient past. Back then, there were neither white people, nor black people, only the ancestors of the human species as a whole (and they were all black). The "Turkana boy" and his people WERE whites' ancestors indeed, as well as ours. And yes, whites ultimately came from Africa, because they came from black people. White people abuse and disrespect Africa as silly kids sometimes insult their mother, but even this cannot change the truth - that Africa is their ancestral homeland as well as ours.

panafrican:


How do we know there were neither White nor Black people back then? Why all these claims, let's not be surprise when a hidden agenda comes out ? We know how European secure their own conscience before enslaving millions of African over some 350 years. Better watch out and get ready.

makahlj2:
The mutations that make white people white are very young. So, 15000 years ago, there were no white people anywhere in the world, except the occasional Albino. Also, the molecular genetics says that the genetic differences between contemporary human races are too small for them to have diverged earlier than 100000 years ago.