who was i human come on land
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Almost 2 million years ago in what is now South Africa, a boy and a woman fell to their deaths through a hole in the ground. The pair had tumbled through the collapsed roof of an underground cave.
A storm soon washed their bodies into a lake or pool within the cave. Wet soil rapidly hardened around the bodies, protecting their bones.
The cave sits within the Malapa Nature Reserve in South Africa. In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was exploring the cave when he spotted a bone sticking out of a chunk of rock. He alerted his father, Lee, who was digging nearby. Lee Berger realized the bone came from a hominid. That’s a term for humans and our extinct ancestors (such as Neandertals). As a paleoanthropologist, Lee Berger studies such hominids at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand.
The earliest known hominids appeared around 7 million years ago in Africa. Researchers generally agree that hominids evolved into Homo from a small-brained genus called Australopithecus (Aw STRAAL oh PITH eh kus). No one knows precisely when that happened. But it was between 2 million and 3 million years ago.
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