Turkana Boy

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  1. The nearly complete fossilised skeleton of a Homo ergaster youth (estimated 7–11 years old at death) who lived 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago.
    — The prime importance of the Turkana Boy is that he represented the earliest kind of human we know of whose general body proportions matched those of living people.

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Named after Lake Turkana, Kenya, near which the fossil was discovered in 1984 by Kenyan palaeontologist Kamoya Kimeu, on the bank of the Nariokotome River.
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