Question: When did the country home to the Industrial Revolution take control of the country where the most fossils of Austrolopithecus have been found?

It is now called ``Little Foot ''and it is probably around three million years old. It was named Australopithecus prometheus which has since been placed within A. africanus. Other fossil remains found in the same cave in 2008 were named Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.9 million years ago. Then, in 1997, an almost complete Australopithecus skeleton with skull was found in the Sterkfontein caves of Gauteng, South Africa. A. africanus probably evolved into A. sediba, which some scientists think may have evolved into H. erectus, though this is heavily disputed. <SEP> during the song dynasty (960 -- 1279), the country experienced a revolution in agriculture, water transport, finance, urbanization, science and technology, which made the chinese economy the most advanced in the world from about 1100. mastery of wet - field rice cultivation opened up the hitherto underdeveloped south of the country, while later northern china was devastated by jur'chen and mongol invasions, floods and epidemics. the result was a dramatic shift in the center of population and industry from the home of chinese civilization around the yellow river to the south of the country, a trend only partially reversed by the re-population of the north from the 15th century. by 1300, china had fallen behind italy in living standards. <SEP> the green revolution in india refers to a period of time when agriculture in india changed to a non-sustainable, industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology such as high yielding variety (hyv) seeds, tractors, pump sets, etc., that have contributed to a massive systemic problem in the country affecting people's health, small farmers sustainability, soil erosion and earth degradation. the key leadership role played by the indian agricultural scientist vehla swaminathan banda together with many others including gs kalkat, earned him the popularly used title 'father of green revolution of india'. the green revolution allowed developing countries, like india, to try to overcome poor agricultural productivity. within india, this started in the early 1960s and led to an increase in food grain production, especially in punjab, haryana and uttar pradesh during the early phase. the main development was higher - yielding varieties of wheat, for developing rust resistant strains of wheat. dr. vandana shiva, physicist at the university of punjab, and completed her ph. d. on the 'hidden variables and non-locality in quantum theory' from the university of western ontario (also considered by forbes magazine 2010 as one of the seven most powerful women on the globe) afirms that green revolution did not save india from famine, as the proponents of industrial agriculture and gmo technology would argue, in fact the green revolution reduced india's production. besides, more than 300,000 farmers have committed suicide in india since 1995, when the rules of globalisation of agriculture by the wto (world trade organization) were implemented, transforming food into a commodity, agriculture into corporate business, and shifting control over seeds and food from farmers to giant multinational corporations. <SEP> The country became a self - governing nation state within the British Empire, in 1934 following enactment of the Status of the Union Act. The dominion came to an end on 31 May 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named Republic of South Africa. A republican constitution was adopted. Following the defeat of the Boers in the Anglo - Boer or South African War (1899 -- 1902), the Union of South Africa was created as a dominion of the British Empire in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. <SEP> With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, Britain surged ahead of its European rivals. Demand for Indian commodities was boosted by the need to sustain the troops and the economy during the war, and by the increased availability of raw materials and efficient methods of production. As home to the revolution, Britain experienced higher standards of living. Its spiralling cycle of prosperity, demand and production had a profound influence on overseas trade. The company became the single largest player in the British global market. William Henry Pyne notes in his book The Microcosm of London (1808) that: