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The document discusses how dating fossils found in sedimentary rock layers at Koobi Fora in Kenya has helped scientists investigate human evolution. Sediment built up over thousands of years at Lake Turkana, burying bones that became fossils. Scientists use radiometric dating of volcanic materials within the rock layers to determine the age of fossils found between those layers. This helps create a timeline of early humans and adds to the theory that humans originated in Africa.
- Author
- Rim Yazid
- Language
- EN