A site at the south end of Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in northern Kenya with jaw fragments of what is thought to be a hominid come from deposits some 5-6 million years old. It may be Australopithecus.
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Site at the south end of Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in Kenya. Jaw fragments of what is thought to be a hominid come from deposits some 5-6 million years old (at the Miocene-Pliocene boundary). The main importance of this discovery is that it fills the supposed ‘gap’ in the human evolutionary record between four and eight million years ago. See human evolution.