Breakthrough as scientists declare Turkana discovery is ‘oldest common ancestor’

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Thirteen million years ago, an infant ape died in Napudet area, West of Lake Turkana. Volcanic eruptions, common in that era covered its body with ash, and it lay there until 2014 when a group of anthropologists discovered its skull. 

That discovery, it now emerges, could be what puts into clarity the shared ancestry of apes and man before their lineages split. It could also add a new dimension on the belief that early man evolved from Africa, and not Eurasia as some studies have suggested.