The direct ancestor of modern man is said to have been Homo habili.
This creature is said to have had the knowledge of making and using tools. He is thought to have been contemporaneous with Australopithecines, the first creature to walk on two legs. Traces of these most ancient human creatures in Uganda were found in Rusinga and Moroto
The type of creature identified at these sites was Dryopithecus.
It was partially bipedal creature said to give existed as far back as between thirty and fifteen million years ago.
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