Fishermen, Lake TurkanaPhotograph by Nigel Pavitt/Photo Library
Men still fish with traditional handwoven nets along the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya’s northwest corner. Fossils of two Homo sapien ancestors more than a million years old were found east of the lake, and in 2007 scientists analyzing the fossils set off a controversy by theorizing that the two species had lived side by side in the region for around half a million years—and hadn’t evolved one from the other, as previously thought. |