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Olduvai Gorge

NOUN
  1. a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains

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  • For most of human history, there was little chance of overdosing on information, because any one day in the Olduvai Gorge was a lot like any other. Why We're Powerless
  • To descend into Olduvai Gorge - back two million years in time - is humbling.
  • Were the inhabitants of Olduvai Gorge, or for that matter, the Neanderthals, all sweetness and light -- charitable to their neighbors and respectful of their environment? The Real End of the World
  • The earliest evidence of a man-made habitat dates to about 2,000,000 BCE and comes from Olduvai Gorge in Central Africa.
  • The Leakey family, who discovered the oldest hominid remains, in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, had a dig at the lake and were discovering more remnants of early man, which seemed appropriate in that atmosphere. One From The Hart
  • That went out the window with Olduvai Gorge, and good riddance. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
  • The skull of Paranthropus was discovered by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and helped put the Leakeys on the world stage. Study: Ancient 'Nutcracker Man' really ate grass
  • These crafted pieces of stone still litter sites in eastern Africa, including the Olduvai Gorge in Kenya, and bear testimony to the mental transformation in our ancestors' brains. Love of animals led to language and man's domination of Earth
  • The Dmanisi hominids are among the most primitive individuals so far attributed to H. erectus or to any species that is indisputably Homo, and it can be argued that this population is closely related to Homo habilis sensu stricto as known from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Koobi Fora in northern Kenya, and possibly Hadar in Ethiopia. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
  • Her interest in evolution began with a flight from Nairobi into Olduvai Gorge to interview the late paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Olduvai, Evolution, and Darwin
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