Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.