Move the mouse over countries on the world map for more information and images (which may take a few seconds to load). This is based on a list of the most significant primate fossils finds relating to human evolution from Wikipedia. There are thousands of finds which are mostly fragmentary (e.g. bones / teeth) which were not included in this list.

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The interactive map was produced using the StatPlanet software.

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