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Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.

Publication Details

Nature, 316, 788-792. 1985 CE.

The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 to 1.6 years old. The skeleton was discovered in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey, at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya.

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Entry Number#7284
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External URLearly-homo-erectus-skeleton-from-west-lake-turkana-kenya