Homo ergaster (fossil hominid) (Lower Pleistocene, 1.5 to 1.6 Ma; Nariokotome, Lake Turkana area, Kenya) 1
Homo ergaster Groves & Mazak, 1975 - fossil hominid from the Pleistocene of Kenya, Africa. (replica of KNM-WT 15000 (Kenya National Museum, Western Lake Turkana collection) on public display at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Hominids are humans. Fossils of the human family are known back to the Miocene, with many species known from Pliocene and Pleistocene sedimentary rocks. Only one species in Family Hominidae is alive today, in the late Holocene - that's us, Homo sapiens. Hominids originated in Africa - that's where the oldest human fossils occur. Everyone on Earth is African, from an evolutionary point-of-view.
This skull caps a remarkable, near-complete hominid skeleton of a teenage boy from the Lake Turkana area of Kenya. This specimen has been classified as Homo ergaster or as an African population of Homo erectus.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae
Stratigraphy: Lower Pleistocene, 1.5 to 1.6 Ma
Locality: Nariokotome, western Lake Turkana area, northern Kenya, eastern Africa
Homo ergaster (fossil hominid) (Lower Pleistocene, 1.5 to 1.6 Ma; Nariokotome, Lake Turkana area, Kenya) 1
Homo ergaster Groves & Mazak, 1975 - fossil hominid from the Pleistocene of Kenya, Africa. (replica of KNM-WT 15000 (Kenya National Museum, Western Lake Turkana collection) on public display at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Hominids are humans. Fossils of the human family are known back to the Miocene, with many species known from Pliocene and Pleistocene sedimentary rocks. Only one species in Family Hominidae is alive today, in the late Holocene - that's us, Homo sapiens. Hominids originated in Africa - that's where the oldest human fossils occur. Everyone on Earth is African, from an evolutionary point-of-view.
This skull caps a remarkable, near-complete hominid skeleton of a teenage boy from the Lake Turkana area of Kenya. This specimen has been classified as Homo ergaster or as an African population of Homo erectus.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae
Stratigraphy: Lower Pleistocene, 1.5 to 1.6 Ma
Locality: Nariokotome, western Lake Turkana area, northern Kenya, eastern Africa