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Another little girl Miv Lika loved to collect puzzles. True, it always seemed to her that they were too simple. To complicate the task, she turned all the pieces face down and collected them, guided only by the form. Later, these skills helped in her future career.

Having entered the glorified paleontology family (her parents of her husband Richard, also a paleontologist, Luis and Mary Lika were in a team that found the famous Lucy) and becoming the leading paleontologist of the Kenyan National Museum, she found the application of her talent in terms of puzzles. It is not only about the assembly of fossil skulls from pieces the size of a nut. The last finds in East Africa are formed in a whole picture of human evolution - more complex and amazing than the one that paleontologists painted just a few years ago.

The last find of the face is a broken skull, dug up on the west coast of Lake Lake Turkan, threatens the questions of the questionnaire “Nota what was considered once and for all established: we are direct descendants of small creatures, whose most famous representative, Lucy, wandered around the perspicacious Africa somewhere between 2.9 and 3.9 million years ago. “For more than 20 years, we thought that our common ancestor was Australopithectus aparnsis (the view to which Lucy belongs),” says Liki. “With a new find, we have at least two probable candidates for their ancestors.” It is like finding out that your family ancestor was not a native grandmother, but an unknown cousin to anyone.

The ancient skull, presented at the end of March by the Naichur magazine, was found in August 1999. Assistant Justes Iras, manually sorting through fossil fragments in burnt out ground near the lake, came across a piece of bone. “I thought, maybe the monkey,” he said.

“He put off his find and began to wait for Miv Lika.” Miv took out