Monday 5 September 2011

science related travel and places,eastern province,kenya

The eastern shore of lake Turkana,which lies within  the eastern province is where  lots of hominid fossils(australopithecus,homo habilis and homo erectus) as well as the stone tools made by the hominids have been found at places like koobi Fora.
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(The Turkanas after those the lake is named have the highest mitochondrial DNA variations in the world, possibly nearest to the mitochondrial Eve

Science related travel and places,Rift valley province,kenya

In the eastern half of this province along the western side of lake turkana(formerly known as lake rudolf)(the other side of lake turkana is in Eastern province), there are sites where
Acheulian tools have been found  that are over a million years old.
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Saturday 23 April 2011

science related travel and places,cambridgeshire,england,uk

Cambridge university is where james watson and francis crick discovered the double helix structure of dna in 1953 which they also told the patron of the eagle pub in bene't street,they told  the pub goers one day in 1953 that they had discovered the secret of life.