"In The Descent of Man (1871), #Darwin suggested that #Africa was the most likely evolutionary homeland for humans because it was the continent where our closest relatives, the African apes, could be found today. However, it was to be many years before the fossil (1/5) 
evidence that was ultimately to prove him right began to be discovered. Before then, #Europe with the Neanderthals, “Heidelberg Man,” and the spurious “Piltdown Man,” and #Asia with “Java Man,” were the foci of scientific attention concerning human ancestry. But the 1921 (2/5)
discovery of the Broken Hill skull in what is now #Zambia, and the 1924 discovery of the Taung skull (from South Africa), started the process that gave Africa its paramount importance in the story of human evolution, even if that process still had many years to run. By (3/5)
the 1970s a succession of #fossils had established that Africa not only was the place of origin for the human line (that is, the continent in which the last common ancestor of humans and #chimpanzees lived) but was probably also where the genus Homo (humans) had (4/5)
originated. But where did our own species, Homo #sapiens (modern humans), originate? This was still unclear in the 1970s and remained so until quite recently."
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