Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july 1973 Kenya Barren Earth May hold secret of mans evolution by Stanley Meisler Korobi Lake Kenya special tons there can be few areas on Earth so difficult for Man As this land by the shores of Lake Rudolf in Northern yet Man May have thrived Here about three millions years ago it is strange knowing this and seeing the area the Gabbro who once lived were driven away in the last few years by the dearth of fresh they left Little human life nomads bring their sheep goats from Ethiopia to devour the few patches of grass amid the scrub Bush in the baked some fishermen work the Alka line netting their food out of the algae Green not far from ugly Croco but two million to three Mil lion years there were few areas on Earth so hospitable to while ice menaced the rest of the this land near Equator had there were Large expanses of swampy fresh Rivers Cut across the their Banks Rich with heavy Rains this part of the world was so hospitable then that it has now become one of the great mines of no other place on Earth has yielded older Fossil specimens of what seems like Early the most spectacular yield came last More than 150 pieces of Fossil Bone were when pieced to became a now classified is that of an Early Man million years this and Many others like could change most of the Standard scientific theories about How and when Man the first bits of this Skull were spotted in by Bernard a member of a team of eight Kenya Fossil Hunters working for the expedition of Richard the 29 year old director of the Kenya National museum and the son of the late Louis Lea the renowned Kenya a since Richard Leakey began work at Lake Rudolf in More than 90 specimens have been found there of Early Man or of creatures Akin to the Leakey which will use the services of 26 other scientists this has surely become sciences most exciting and productive theatre Tours set free Tours of the Manitoba theatre which will introduce visitors to the behind the scenes will be conducted at monday to starting this Mon groups wishing Tours at other times should Contact Jean Webster or Cherry Kar Ryshin at the theatre evening entertainment at the theatre Centre features Billy grahams North and an exhibit of Art works by Jim Wanda Art Larry Kissick and Steve Pru Dent to july Folk singers Jim Donohue and Ethan Taylor will begin performances at starting and a new Art exhibit will Hunt these Days for the fossils of Early the 700 Square Miles that make up the Lake Rudolf site Are so Rich in fossils to a the Job of Hunting them seems deceptively Sim Lake Rudolf is important for the study of Early Man because of its ecology and three million years its Waters were attracting Large numbers of in brought men or near men to prey on the Ani Mals for As men died by the their Bones were buried by soil and volcanic Ash carried by gradual the Bones Sedi ment upon sediment piled Over these Fossil Bones might still lie hundreds of feet below the surface of the Earth if it were not for great earthquakes that came during the last million the quakes created the great rift Valley that cuts Down Eastern land tilted up and strata once below the Earth were pushed on with natural More and More of the sediment wore gradually exposing the the process is still going although there is Little rain there is enough to Wear Down a Little of the surface every sometimes As much As a a Fossil hidden by the Earth last year singers in Park Folk singers Graham Shaw and Peter Feniak will perform from 2 to 3 sunday at Birds Hill Park in the Sec Ond of a series of free concerts at the sponsored by festival plugged into a new location Thompson electrical contractors 1574 Erin Street phone 7866653 after Many years at 1084 main in we have now moved to larger and More modern facilities at 1574 Erin Street and have added More equipment and More space to bring you even better and faster our motto has been and will continue to be no Job too 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ready of discovery this there Are so Many fossils o in that Leakey expedition has done Little excavating below the surface the incline where the Foss Skull designated by its museum number 1470 Man a found is now Bare Earth with Stone Marker showing the Ca Aloigue All the Roc sediment and fossils were re moved and sifted by screen in search of hominid specimens but the Earth below the sur face was left Lea key intents to excavate it thi a visitor can stand at the in Cline where 1470 Man a found and see an escarpment about two Miles tha with different layers of sediment and vol Canic Ash clearly i the key to the age of the Fossil found by Leakey using the potassium argon scientists at the uni v e r s i t y of Cambridge hav fixed the Date of one layer of Tuff or volcanic Ash of the escarpment at million the dating Means that any thing found below the level o that Tuff like 1470 is a least million years old with additional dating of the strata below the Tuff by othe the scientists of the expedition have decided tha 1470 Man was million year that age is the main reason the finds of Leakey expedition have upset or at Leas made questionable the Stan Dard theory about the evolution of the Standard accepted for several holds that modern Man known scientifically As Homo Sapiens was descended from a Man like creature called Austral now once lived in both Southern and Eastern although his name Means Southern Australopithecus was More of a Man than an by biological classifies the Genus Australopithecus belonged with the Genus Homo the Genus of modern Man in the family called Horn i n i d s it probably makes most sense to think of Australopithecus As almost a the average Australopithecus had a brain of 500 cubic Cen about the size of most modern he was relatively Small but could walk his Teeth were larger than those of modern Man but lacked the Tusk like canines and incisors of modern his Skull and jaw were More manlike than according to the aus until re was believed to have existed no More than two Mil lion years gradually Evol Ved into modern the most important difference was the Side of the Australopithecus evolved into Homo rectus with a brain ranging in size from 750 to More than years ago and finally into Homo Sapiens or modern Man with a brain averaging and rang ing up to Richards a challenged this theory in the working in his olduvai Gorge site in believed that Australopithecus was a manlike creature that went off on its own in it became sex according to without evolving into Man or anything in discovered the fossils of a creature at olduvai Gorge almost two million years old with a brain of 670 larger than aus Leakey called the creature Homo Kabilis or Handy the earliest Man then but most of the scientific establishment resected Leakey theory and classified Handy Man As an Australopithecus with a larger brain than where do Richard Leakey 1470 Man and the other finds at Lake Rudolf Challenge the Standard theory the Skull of 1470 Man has a brain capacity of More than 800 which Leakey believes is too Large for inclusion in the Genus in the expedition has found thigh Bones of almost the same age As 1470 Man that Are almost identical to those of modern Leakey has classified All these As part of the Genus though he has left undetermined the species of Homo that it in Leakey believes that his expedition has uncovered Evi Dence of a real Man not just a near Man like Australopithecus existing in Africa million years the expedition has collected Many fossils of Australopithecus at Lake these show that this manlike creature existed at the same time As 1470 also three million years based on the new Fossil Evi Leakey believes that Australopithecus was not upright in the same Way As modern Australopithecus probably used All four limbs when he moved slowly from one Point to he Only stood upright on two legs when he wanted to move All this Means that Australopithecus was not As manlike As assumed by the Standard theory of it also Means that it is doubtful that which continued to exist two million years later with a smaller could be the ancestor of 1470 i think this new Skull 1470 has forced us to accept the possibility of a new i dont think its proved any but it has made every b o d y reexamine the Evi Leakey said in an it is still Lea key that scientists will discover even older fossils of theatre Centre names director Jean Webster of has been appointed Public relations director of the Manitoba theatre Webster has served As company manager for the l o r e 11 o Hilton repertory producer of the sir John falstaff theatre and on the staff of the Louis municipal she has appeared As an actress in More than 200 productions in Stock and repertory theatres in the United states and her own Patch work has produced childrens supporting the theory that it really was the ancestor of he went i personally dont believe that is going to be the Leakey he believed that scientists would discover a new creature be tween three million and five million years old that was the common ancestor of both Austro pit hocus and this common ancestor is if we find going to be Australopithecus nor is it going to be Lea key but i would predict Hes going to be closer to Homo than he is to without reveal ing the hinted that his expedition already had some evidence of this common ances we already have some in Leakey very slight Evi certainly not sufficient to certainly not sufficient to write a paper but quite sufficient for somebody who prone to speculate to suggest that were getting very warm toward this some analysts believe that Leakey 1470 Man both supports and contradicts the elder Leakey on the one it supports Leakey View that Australopithecus was not the ancestor of but it also seems to contradict Leakey Contention that Homo or Handy Man was really a Rich Ards 1470 Man is a million years older than Handy yet it has a larger the brain should grow not As Man but Richard Leakey contend that the smaller the brain o Handy Man does not 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