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Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past
Tides of History
Homo Ergaster - Turkana Boy
The best known example of Homo ergaster is a juvenile who died between 1.5 and 1.6 million years ago in what's now Kenya. From the neck down, Turkana boy looks much more like us than his predecessors. His limb proportions are essentially identical to our own, meaning that he was adapted for endurance running. We have to remember that as much as Turkana boy looked like us in some respects, there's no evidence that he or even a group closely related to him belongs in the line of our direct ancestors.
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