jan 24, 1948 - Mary Leakey (formerly Mary Nicol) finds a primate skull in Olduvai Gorge, a gorge 200 miles South of Nairobi, Kenya that the Leakeys chose as their primary area of research. Louis and Mary thought that this skull connected apes and humans, but this was unfortunately not true.
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jan 24, 1948
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~ 77 years ago