The discoveries at Olduvai Gorge are important because:
A. they documented the early presence of hominins in Africa.
B. they gave the age of the first hominins as around 500,000 years ago.
C. they shifted attention to East Asia as the cradle of human evolution.
D. they provided the first finds of Homo sapiens.
Answer: A
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