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IN THE TURKANA BASIN!

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND POTENTIAL FOR DISCOVERY

Research into human origins is ongoing at many academic centres around the world. However, the basic evidence for this research comes from  fossils. In order for paleoanthropology to progress, additional fossil and geological evidence from key sites is essential.

Because these sites are few, and because successful investigation of the larger sites depends on evidence accumulated over many years, it is important that these localities continue to be worked. The results of the previous 34 years of research in the Turkana Basin have laid a foundation that now allows detailed interpretation of the evidence through analyses that were previously impossible.

The ongoing long-term research project in the Turkana Basin continues to provide new and crucial fossil evidence in the unraveling story of human evolution. Recent field seasons, which have resulted in the recovery of rich faunal remains and of new hominid skulls, are proof that this area will continue to yield fossils crucial to the ongoing study of human evolution.

The unique resources in terms of the geological and fossil record and the exceptional size of the fossil exposures combine to provide a potential for future research that is unavailable at any other location. Not to realize this potential by continuing the research in the Turkana basin would be to miss and opportunity that is unlikely, in the near future, to become available again.

HOW TO HELP

If you would like to support this research you can make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO RESEARCH IN THE TURKANA BASIN. All contributors receive an exclusive newsletter including regular updates on progress in the field. For the time being National Geographic is kindly processing contributions on behalf of the Koobi Fora Research Project. 100% of funds contributed go to research in the Turkana Basin.

Past supporters of the research have been:
National Geographic Society
Leakey Foundation
Volkswagen Foundation
and others.