Detailed environmental reconstructions, based on fossil animal bones, of the Daka Member of Ethiopia’s Middle Awash deposits .
a. demonstrate that Asian Homo erectus lived in a rain forest. provide a detailed picture of the habitat in which Homo erectus lived about 1 mya.
b. provide a detailed picture of the habitat in which australopithicines and Homo habilis coexisted about 2.5 mya.
c. prove that in certain areas of Africa, there were no large mammals, only "microfauna" consisting of mice and similar creatures.