Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth who lived 1.5 to...
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(nicknamed "Turkana Boy"). They interpreted the fossil, consisting of a nearly complete skeleton, as representing H. erectus. Turkana Boy was the first...
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suggests an ability for high speed throwing. It was once thought that Turkana boy had 6 lumbar vertebra instead of the 5 seen in modern humans and 11 instead...
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Lake Turkana (/tɜːrˈkɑːnə, -ˈkæn-/) is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It...
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Turkana may refer to: Turkana people of Kenya and Ethiopia Turkana language of Kenya and Ethiopia Lake Turkana in Kenya Lake Turkana National Parks Turkana...
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During excavations at Lake Turkana in 1984, palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey, assisted by Kamoya Kimeu, discovered the Turkana Boy, a 1.6-million-year-old...
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Richard Leakey (section West Turkana)
chair of the Turkana Basin Institute until his death. Richard Erskine Frere Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in Nairobi. As a small boy, Leakey lived...
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(previously known as Lake Rudolf). In 1984, the Turkana Boy, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus boy was discovered. In 1999, a 3,500,000-year-old...
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Pluvial Origins of society Palaeoarchaeology Peopling of the Americas Turkana Boy Christian, David (2014). Big History: Between Nothing and Everything...
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and later Homo, such as the well-preserved skeleton of KNM WT 15000 ("Turkana Boy"; a 1.55 million year old H. ergaster/H. erectus), gave little insight...
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KNM ER 3733 was compared to male fossils KNM ER 3883 and KNM WT 15000 (Turkana Boy), who were also found at the Koobi Fora site, and because of this, is...
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Neanderthals based on the gracile H. ergaster partial skeleton "KNM WT-15000" ("Turkana Boy"), but the discovery of some Middle Pleistocene skeletal elements (though...
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using more complex tools. The oldest known tools are flakes from West Turkana, Kenya, which date to 3.3 million years ago. The next oldest stone tools...
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rate similar to the faster ape-like trajectories of MH1 (A. sediba) and Turkana boy (H. ergaster). Because dental development is so similar to that of modern...
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complete Homo ergaster skeleton known as KNM-WT 15000 or Turkana Boy (also known as Nariokotome boy), and in 1964, the jaw of a Paranthropus boisei hominid...
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Transvaal Museum, South Africa TM – Toros-Menalla, Chad WT – West (Lake) Turkana, Kenya Human timeline List of first human settlements List of fossil primates...
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anatomy of H. erectus is based on the adolescent H. e? ergaster specimen Turkana Boy from Africa, as well as a few other isolated skeletons from Africa and...
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the Name of that Photographer), Pithe (Backs), Walking the Plank, and Turkana Boy. Some women focus poems also concluded this volume like Vishpala, Surya...
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Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth. The fossil skeleton of the hominid "Turkana Boy" is discovered in Kenya. February 3 – Dr. John Buster and the research...
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the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton and the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy, and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man. The hall...
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species. The shape of the lumbar vertebrae is much more similar to that of Turkana Boy (H. ergaster/H. erectus) and humans than other australopithecines. The...
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Reconstructed H. ergaster Turkana Boy...
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which houses the Turkana boy fossils. In a campaign christened "hide the bones," Kenyan evangelicals demanded the removal of Turkana boy from display. He...
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the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton and the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy, and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man. In the 1999...
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Francis Harold Brown (section Research in Turkana)
most of the Turkana Basin in Kenya, east Africa. Brown introduced single-crystal argon-argon and potassium-argon dating into the Turkana Basin, resolving...
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Regula; Haeusler, Martin (2013). "No skeletal dysplasia in the nariokotome boy KNM-WT 15000 ( homo erectus )-A reassessment of congenital pathologies of...
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pointing to man's evolution from ape to human. The collection includes the Turkana Boy discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey...
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based on estimating the shape of the H. erectus birth canal from the Turkana Boy fossil because that was what was available then. Simpson and colleagues...
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Enrico Banfi 2010–2012 Mauro Mariani [it] since 2012 Domenico Piraina Turkana Boy (Homo ergaster) A Cro-Magnon skull from France Pygmy elephant skeletons...
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Padma, a novel in Chinese Jessica Moore for Jean-François Beauchemin's Turkana Boy, a novel in French (Talonbooks, 2012) Sean Redmond for Felix Fabri's...
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