This post is an edited excerpt of a book chapter I co-authored: Bobe, R., d’Oliveira Coelho, J., Carvalho, S., Leakey, M., 2022. Early hominins and paleoecology of the Koobi Fora Formation, Lake Turkana Basin, Kenya. In: Reynolds, S.C., Bobe, R. (Eds.), African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. …