cestors. “One of the major developments that’s going to come out of TBI over the next 20 years will be to recover physical evidence of human ancestors from the location and time period for which the increasing evidence from DNA suggests that every person alive today can trace their genetic ancestry back to somewhere very close to Turkana,” Leakey said.
“TBI researchers are on the verge of answering the greatest questions regarding our ancestral past, but only the relentless collection of new fossils will reveal the missing pieces in our history,” Bailey said. “This latest round of giving will enable the ongoing support needed to allow for the operation of permanent year-round field schools and research projects, giving researchers the ability to amass the evidence needed to unlock the secrets of the Turkana Basin and, ultimately, our human ancestry.”