Hominins in mainland Africa

Raymond dart was a pioneer in the study of early human fossils African mainland. He is a university professor of anatomy Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (South Africa). Raymond dart acquire a fossil baboon skull from areas taung, transvaal (south africa), approximately 322 km from johannesburg. This fossil was later named Australopithecus africanus (southern ape of Africa). Research dart followed by robert broom and jt robinson. Both of these experts find fossils of up to 1.5 meters high weighing about 45 kg and 91 kg. Smaller fossil australopithecine called Africanus, while the australopithecines named robustus.

Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey also managed to collect fossils at Olduvai basin, northern Tanzania in 1931. Leakey's findings is a kind of a more robust australopithecines. They named their findings, the australopithecines robustus. While the larger fossils they called australopithecines. Recent findings Leakey looks more like a human and was named homo habilis. In 1965, bryan patterson and william w. Howells found fossils of other types kanapoi, kenya south, where the fossil was named homo africanus. Subsequently, in 1968 to 1972, Richard Leakey (son of Louis Leakey) found fossils on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya. Richard Leakey called the findings are homo 1470 (Skull 1470). 1470 homo discovery has significance for ancient human research efforts in Africa. Based on these findings be interpreted that about 2 million years ago the continent of Africa has been inhabited by human kind homo.