![]() ![]() But the truth is, we became bipedal before the savanna existed. The image of early hunters chasing red meat through a golden savanna sure painted beautiful illustrations for biology textbooks. In the Great Rift Valley where early hominids thrived, paleontologists discovered that the accompanying microfauna, pollen, and vegetation from that period weren’t savanna species at all. Then fossil evidence challenged what we thought we knew. Why do modern-day humans appear so drastically different from apes when ape species don’t look all that different from one another?įifty years ago, the mainstream scientific consensus said that our ancestors went from living in trees to hunting on the savanna. ![]()
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