Fossils found in Kenya have shown that primates inhabited the area for more than 20 million years. Recent findings near Lake Turkana indicate that hominids such as ''Homo habilis'' (1.8 to 2.5 million years ago) and ''Homo erectus'' (1.9 million to 350,000 years ago) are possible direct ancestors of modern ''Homo sapiens'', and lived in Kenya in the Pleistocene epoch.