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Africa, East, Prehistory

Africa is renowned for its diverse and bountiful fossil record of human and nonhuman ancestors that spans some 50 million years, including Eocene primates from the Fayum deposits of Egypt and a sundry group of hominids (members of the family Hominidae, which is the taxonomic family to which humans and their immediate ancestors belong) that made their evolutionary appearance some 5 million years ago in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia. Tracing humans’ ancestral beginnings to this region is but