Although he also did some hunting, he lived mainly by collecting and eating vegetables.

One of the things that identified him as a man was his utilization of primitive tools.

He had a pointed stone which may have been used to sharpen sticks, and these sticks were probably used for digging roots to augment his food supply.
Leakey believes that Homo Habilis, who lived in East Africa about two million years ago, was the immediate ancestor of man and the most advanced of all the hominids.

Although the hominids spread far outside of Africa, it is clear that they originate there and that it was in Africa that true man first emerged.

As Darwin predicted a century ago, Africa has been found to be the father of mankind.
For many thousands of years, Homo Sapiens and the other hominids lived side by side in Africa as elsewhere.