Give reasons why East Africa is regarded as the place where man first evolved.

      

Give reasons why East Africa is regarded as the place where man first evolved.

  

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Eric
a) Evidence from archaeologists’ show that the earliest apes first evolved around lake and rift
valley areas. And if man evolved from apes, then the first man must have appeared in east
Africa.
b) The savanna landscapes found in east Africa favored evolution while the conditions elsewhere
(forests and deserts) Were unfavourable.
c) The bones and weapons and tools which archaeologists are finding are proofs to this. These
findings are widespread in Olduvai Gorge, Olorgesaillie, and Ngorongoro and around lakes of
east Africa.
d) The discovery of remains of early hominids and their material culture which form a pattern of
human evolution prove this. E.g. we can trace the evolutionary process from dryopithecus to
ramapithecus to Australopithecus to Homo habilis to Homo erectus to Homo sapiens.
ericmunguti answered the question on September 24, 2018 at 05:54


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