Published August 20, 2018 | Version v1
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On the Origin of the Species, Danakil as the Galapagos of Pliocene East Africa

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The ancestors of the human species, Australopithecus afarensis, evolved in an open grassland, in a region that was dominated by rainforests much like in Kongo today. How does an open grassland find a niche in a forested region, where it would easily be overgrown by arboreal vegetation?

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