I'm Katie O'Toole. And I'm Curt Parker. On today's program we're going to talk about Africa.
Most scientists believe that all humans trace their roots to the African continent.
The fossil record of human-like creatures dates back millions of years. About one and a half million years ago, a twelve year old boy died along the banks of a lake in eastern Africa. Scientists discovered his bones in 1984. When they pieced the bones together, they had the most complete skeleton of an early human ever found. Of the people who remained in Africa, most lived in the area that today is the Sahara Desert.