Turkana Boy

This conclusion has mostly been based on the Turkana Boy fossil discovered in 1984.

It also includes the full remains of a homo erectus popularly known as the Turkana boy.

Turkana Boy had a projecting nose rather than the open flat nose seen in apes.

The reconstruction of Turkana Boy is especially evocative.

The story of his discovery of Turkana boy provides an intimate glimpse into the working and thinking of paleoanthropologists.

When she was an adolescent, her father led a team that found the first ever Homo erectus skeleton, the so-called Turkana boy.

Turkana Boy is found in Kenya by team led by Richard Leakey.

In a campaign christened "hide the bones," Kenyan evangelicals have demanded the removal of Turkana boy from display.

Turkana Boy is classified as either Homo erectus or Homo ergaster.

Some of the remains are almost indistinguishable from the fossil attributable to the 1.5 million year old Turkana Boy, belonging to H. ergaster.

Most dispense with the species name ergaster, making no distinction between such fossils as the Turkana Boy and Peking Man.

The collection includes the Turkana Boy discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of a team led by Richard Leakey in 1984.

In 1984, the Turkana Boy, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus boy was discovered by Kamoya Kimeu.

The most complete 'Homo ergaster' skeleton Turkana Boy was discovered at Lake Turkana, Kenya, in 1984 .

Jessica Moore for Jean-François Beauchemin's Turkana Boy, a novel in French (Talonbooks, 2012)

The Associated Press reported that Adoyo is mobilizing Kenyan Christians to boycott the Nairobi Museum which house the Turkana boy fossils.

Christopher Dean (M. C. Dean) of University College London, in a Nova special, stated that Turkana Boy was 8 years old at death.

The discovery of Turkana boy (H. ergaster) in 1984 gave evidence that, despite its Homo-sapiens-like anatomy, it may not have been capable of producing sounds comparable to modern human speech.

And the 1.6-million-year-old Turkana Boy, a strapping youth who belonged to the species Homo ergaster - or Homo erectus, depending on which school of the family tree you are enrolled in.

While the Dmanisi finds have not been established definitively as H. ergaster; they are older than Turkana Boy (the only definite ergaster vertebrae on record), and thereby suggest kinship to ergaster.

During excavations at Lake Turkana in 1984, palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey assisted by Kamoya Kimeu discovered the Turkana boy, a 1.6 million year old fossil belonging to Homo erectus.

It has been established, furthermore, that the Turkana Boy probably suffered from a disease of the spinal column that resulted in narrower cervical vertebrae than in modern humans (as well as the older Dmanisi finds).

The site in question lies near Lake Turkana in Kenya, which was already famous for finds relevant to human origins, including the Turkana Boy Homo erectus skeleton, which dates from 1.5 million years ago.

Such inference has been challenged by the discovery of H. ergaster/erectus vertebrae some 150,000 years older than the Turkana Boy in Dmanisi, Georgia, that reflect vocal capabilities within the range of H. sapiens.

Walker was a member of the team led by Richard Leakey responsible for the 1984 discovery the skeleton of the so-called Turkana Boy, and 1985 Walker himself discovered the Black Skull near Lake Turkana in Kenya.