23 March 1962: Anthropologist Dr Louis Leakey unearths 14 million year old remains Dr Louis Leakey,the British anthropologist, announced in Washington the discovery of fossil remains, or estimated to be 14000000 years old,which fill one of the major gaps in man’s evolution.”
He said he had unearthed the remains final July on an orange farm in Kenya. They consisted of two halves of the upper palate and a lower tooth of what he described as a creature unique in anthropological discovery.
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Source: theguardian.com