... islands of Tuscany, whichwould eventually be joined to one anoth-er and the rest of Europe by the retreat of the sea to form the backbone of the Ital-ian peninsula. Large-bodied and small-brained, ... piecetogether the evolutionary history of our ex-tended family. Ongoing fieldwork promis-es to fill some of the gaps in our knowl-edge. But until then, we must hypothesizebased on what we know. The ... site, in the Bahr el Ghazal re-gion of Chad, lies 2,500 kilometers west of the western part of the Rift Valley,thus extending the range of Australo-pithecus well into the center of Africa.The...