Africa is going through a major transition that may alter its geography. The East African Rift System, a huge region that ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy ... affirms that these fossils back up the theory of tectonic drift.

In East Africa's dry Afar region, the meeting point of three tectonic plates had been slowly drifting apart, creating a massive split ... were moving between 0.2 and 0.5 inches per year.

The first theory, known as the 'Out of Africa' model, is that Homo sapiens developed first in Africa and then spread around the world between 100 and 200,000 years ago, superseding all other ...