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Hominids in Tugen Hills

Due to the “Original man of Tugen Hills” in where it was inferred that it was the oldest hominid fossil ever found, said place holds a lot of crucial information regarding long term environmental change. The earth’s environment dating back to perhaps 14 million years ago can be examined through said deposits. The Tugen Hills is a necessary place of archeological excavation for ancestor primate understanding as well as overall understanding of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution.

Evolutionary Significance

Regarding the environment dating to the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miocene period, within the Tugen Hills the history of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift Valley Can be seen through tectonic plate movement and volcanic rocks. The Lukeino sediments formed through continued tectonic plate activity and formation of basins is significant as that is where https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrorin was found. The Tugen Hills as previously mentioned has various fossil remains of hominids and ancestors to humans, apes and other primates. Specifically, Orrorin tugensis was excavated at this specific archeological site, through this find various different ideas were concluded about the ancestors to the Human and Chimpanzee and Orangutan. Moreover “the Original man of Tugen Hills” has helped archeologist, anthropologist and scientist see the transition and divergence between what is the hominid and the ancient ape.

Old Worlds Monkeys in Tugen Hills

In said area, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_monkey have also been found, excavated and examined. The early cercopithecoid monkeys of Kenya are another 12.5 million year old fossils that have helped understand evolution as well as the ancestral standing of modern monkeys and apes. Though much of the fossil record is poorly documented the Tugen Hills site at Kenya can be analyzed through the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene epochs; fossil record. Which dates from 12.5 Ma to 7.4 Ma, where very much is unknown, regarding Old World Monkeys. The examination and finds of the Cercopithecoids has allowed for the Tugen Hills to become a place of evolutionary evidence as well as included the middle to late Miocene period, an era that can be studied through its environment and compared to that of other ancestral eras. Tugen Hills provides great information and debate to the entire understanding of the human ancestor. Paleoanthropologists such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pickford, highlights what is whether or not many of these fossil finds at Tugen Hills belong to humans or that of apes and monkeys. Tugen Hills at Kenya is a key site in understanding paleoanthropological research as well as the divergence, as previously mentioned, from humans to modern apes.