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	Turkana Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turkana Boy is classified as either Homo erectus or Homo ergaster.
		Turkana Boy appears to have matured at a rate in between modern humans and apes.
		The cranial capacity of Turkana Boy was about 880cc, although if he had lived to adulthood it would have been about 910cc, which is considerably smaller than the 1350cc cranial capacity of modern humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkana_Boy (1026 words)

	Lake Turkana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, is a lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, with its far northern end of the lake crossing into Ethiopia.
		Lake Turkana, sometimes referred to as the Jade Sea, contains Nile perch, a handful of obscure and pelagic cichlids of the genus Haplochromis and tilapia, and formerly contained Africa's largest population of Nile crocodiles: 14,000 breed on Central Island.
		In 1984, the Turkana Boy, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus boy was discovered by Kamoya Kimeu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Turkana (615 words)

	KNM-WT 15000 (Turkana Boy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		KNM-WT 15000, "Turkana Boy", Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster)
		The boy was 160 cm (5'3") tall, and estimates are that he might have been about 185 cm (6'1") as an adult.
		One suggested explanation for this is that the boy lacked the fine motor control we have in the thorax to control speech, implying that he wasn't nearly as fluent a speaker as modern humans are (Walker and Shipman 1996).
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/15000.html (338 words)

	Facts: Homo erectus and Neanderthals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Turkana Boy, estimated to be 11 or 12 years old when deceased, was similar to modern humans from the neck down; he was 160cm tall and would have been 180cm tall if he could grow to full adult height.
		Turkana Boy's postcranial skeleton showed that Homo erectus' stature and posture was identical to modern humans, not bent and apelike as formerly supposed.
		Turkana Boy's estimated adult brain size is 910cc; this is within the modern range of 900--2000cc (Foley 2000; Foley 2002).
	www.redrival.com /evolusi/humevol5.htm (1791 words)

	Science & Philosophy :: View topic - The Turkana Boy
		Sure Turkana boy had several distinctions closer to H. erectus from China, but this 9 to 12 year old did not have the ability for complex language because it's thoratic vertibrae was narrorer than modern humans.
		Turkana boy from 1.6 million years ago had the brain size of a 1 year old modern baby.
		Turkana boy's kin were the first groups of hominids to gradually change from the more apelike H. habilis and Australopithecines.
	www.sciencechatforum.com /bulletin/viewtopic.php?t=250 (923 words)

	Week6
		Turkana boy dates to about 1.6mya, and are the remains of a boy of about 12 years old assuming that Homo erectus and Homo sapiens had similar aging patterns.
		The age of Turkana Boy is based on the presence of juvenile dentition and the presence of unfused epiphyses on the long bones.
		Turkana Boy's height was 5'6", which suggests that as a fully-grown adult, he would have been approximately 6 feet tall.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~jerwin/Week6.html (3462 words)

	Archaeologics.com -- Can You Dig It?
		His most famous discovery was that of Turkana Boy in the Koobi Fora area near Lake Turkana.
		Turkana Boy was the nearly complete skeleton of a 12-year-old (or possibly 9-year-old) homo erectus who died 1.6 million years ago.
		Shortly after the discovery of Turkana Boy, Leakey and his team made the discovery of a skull of a new species, Australopithecus aethiopicus (WT 17000).
	www.archaeologics.com /famousLeakey3.html (619 words)

	Origins: Book Review
		In 1984, Leakey and his crew discovered the "Turkana Boy" on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya.
		The Turkana boy had been part of a major shift in human evolution, one in which the seeds of the humanness we feel within us today were firmly planted..."
		It is a summary of the meaning of the discovery of the Turkana boy and Leakey's subsequent investigations and resultant discoveries.
	www.humanistsofutah.org /1994/artsept94.html (2437 words)

	Java Man and Turkana Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The second photo is of the skull of the Homo erectus specimen WT 15000 (the Turkana Boy).
		Note that the skull of the Turkana Boy is quite different from a modern skull.
		In spite of this remarkable similarity, Gish continues to claim that the Java Man is an ape, while the Turkana Boy is a modern human.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/java15000.html (478 words)

	Origins Reconsidered : In Search of What Makes Us Human - Richard Leakey
		Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means.
		They soon unearthed virtually the entire skeleton of what was dubbed the "Turkana Boy" and recognized as one of the most significant paleoanthropological discoveries of all time.
		But while his Turkana Boy caused a sensation in the media and throughout the world of science, Leakey himself was restless.
	www.2think.org /or.shtml (672 words)

	San Diego Museum of Man - Footsteps Through Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A skull fragment found in West Turkana, Kenya, in Africa, in 1984 by Kamoya Kimeu.
		Turkana Boy was between 8 and 11 years old-scientists can tell from his teeth.
		Turkana Boy lived in a warm climate very much like that of today's East Africa where he was found.
	www.abouthumanevolution.org /html/site/timestone11.htm (304 words)

	Teenagers special: The original rebels - being-human - 05 March 2005 - New Scientist
		The Turkana boy did not have his adult canines, which normally erupt before the second set of molars, so his teeth make him 10 or 11 years old.
		When she tried to age the skeletons blind, she found the disparity between skeletal and dental age was often as great as that of the Turkana boy.
		One 10-year-old boy, for example, had a dental age of 9, the skeleton of a 6-year-old but was tall enough to be 11.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=mg18524891.100 (2529 words)

	Douglas Yaney, Ethnographic African Art from Kenya
		Turkana boy's overcoat, also used as a bed, rare.
		Decorated carved wood ladle used by the Turkana and Pokot for scooping soup from the pot or sometimes used as a drinking cup.
		Carved wood ladle used by the Turkana and Pokot for scooping soup from the cook pot or sometimes used as a drinking cup.
	www.douglasyaney.com /ek-series-ethnographic.htm (929 words)

	Turkana feature articles - Frozen Fish (Lake Turkana) - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		This is her take about the village of Kalokol, near the western shore of Lake Turkana.
		An adolescent Turkana boy wearing a tartan robe halted for a few moments in passing, a single ostrich feather sticking out from the back of his head like an antenna.
		Opposite, a Turkana woman, old enough to be a grandmother, suckled a baby to her withered breast.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/turkana/articles-frozenfish.htm (2460 words)

	Kenyan pre-history - Homo erectus - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Discovered by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 at Nariokotome near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
		The brain size was 880 cc, and it is estimated that it would have been 910 cc at adulthood.
		The boy was 160 cm (5'3") tall, and would have been about 185 cm (6'1") as an adult.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/turkana/images/15000.htm (205 words)

	Darwinism Refuted.com
		The most famous of the Homo erectus specimens found in Africa is the fossil of "Narikotome Homo erectus," or the "Turkana Boy," which was found near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
		It is confirmed that the fossil was that of a 12-year-old boy, who would have been 1.83 meters tall in adolescence.
		The Turkana Boy skeleton shown at the side is the best preserved example of Homo erectus that has so far been discovered.
	www.darwinismrefuted.com /origin_of_man_05.html (1162 words)

	Dig This!
		And the length of the arm and leg bones proved that this young boy stood around 5’6”—and would have been over six feet tall by the time he was fully grown.
		When Turkana boy was alive, human beings like us did not yet exist.
		Turkana boy belonged to a species called Homo ergaster or Homo erectus, which may have been an ancestor of Homo sapiens—modern human beings like us.
	www.maryknoll.org /EDUCA/CORNER/kenya/digthis.htm (396 words)

	National Museums of Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The western side of the same lake is the home of the almost complete skeleton of Homo ergaster, nicknamed the 'Turkana Boy', a juvenile of considerable stature who lived about 1.6 million years before present.
		It was discovered in 1969 by Dr Richard Leakey at Illeret on the eastern side of Lake Turkana.
		'Turkana Boy': This is a skeleton of a juvenile Homo ergaster that lived about 1.6 million years before present.
	www.museums.or.ke /palaeabout.html (923 words)

	Honorary Associates / Dr. Richard Leakey (Kenya) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The fossil-hunting expeditions Leakey led to the shores surrounding Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolf) in northern Kenya resulted in the discovery of a large number of hominid fossils that inspired a dramatic revision of many theories of early human evolution.
		Among the most spectacular finds was the almost complete skeleton of an adolescent boy, discovered in 1984 at Nariokotome, on the western shore of Lake Turkana.
		At 1.6 million years old, the "Turkana Boy" is the most complete skeleton dated from this early time.
	www.rationalistinternational.net /associates/r_leakey.htm (332 words)

	Evolution: Humans: Origins of Humankind
		This specimen was found close to a partial skull, giving scientists a direct comparison of two individuals.
		This nearly complete skeleton of a 9- to 12-year-old boy is one of the oldest-known specimens of H.
		The boy -- about 5 feet 3 inches tall when he died -- may have grown to be about 6 feet 1 inch as an adult.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/k.html (476 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		The church blamed the famine in Turkana and other parts of the country on poor planning and management of public resources by the government.
		Fr Barret said he was saddened by a Turkana boy who asked him how he could become a refugee so that he can get food and clothes.
		He added that the Turkana should not only be given relief food but they also required to be armed with education and skills to fend for themselves.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/271199/News/News26.html (301 words)

	KFRP Koobi Fora Research Project Lake Turkana Basin
		The ancient African youth is a reference to the famous "Turkana Boy" fossil, a well-preserved skeleton of a young Homo erectus, found by Dr. Leakey's father, paleontologist and conservationist Richard Leakey, in the early 80s.
		Since 1968 we have made annual expeditions to this fantastic part of Kenya in an effort to better understand how we came to be.
		An ongoing showcase of issues focusing on various aspects of Paleoanthropological research in the Turkana Basin.
	www.kfrp.com /news_item_022605.htm (387 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lake Turkana, the largest and most northern of the Rift Valley lakes, borders on the Ethiopian, Kenyan and Sudanese border.
		The decision to take the route along this desert lake was not an easy one to make, we however all made a pact to be totally prepared and committed both mentally and physically to the intrepid expedition as our survival depended on each other.
		Close to sunset, we pushed our bikes over to where a white robed shepherd boy was herding his flock and asked to put our tent up next to their hand-stitched sheep skin dwelling.
	www.withoutlimits.co.za /content.asp?Section=152 (2918 words)

	Query turkana lake
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		KNM-WT 15000 (Turkana Boy) KNM-WT 15000, "Turkana Boy", Homo erectus.
		Turkana (IPS): Hungersnøden er kommet tilbake til Turkana i Kenya.
	www.unipv.it /webbio/turklink.htm (717 words)

	Dr. Leakey and the Road to Mombasa
		As one of the science leading paleoanthropologist, Dr. Leakey is responsible for the discovery of the ‘Turkana Boy’.
		The skeletal remains are of a small boy referred to as Australopithecus which dates humankind to around 1.5 million years ago, and one of our hypothesized ancestors.
		Leakey made the discovery on a dry stream bed on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in northwest Kenya.
	www.mastgeneralstore.com /monroe/z020599b.php3 (1144 words)

	Louise Leakey carries on family legacy in anthropology
		The five-year plan for the Turkana Basin Paleoanthropological Research Initiative identifies key questions still unanswered in the human evolutionary story including the important transition from Australopithicus to Homo which occurred approximately 1.8 million years ago.
		The results over three decades of research have informed the available record of human evolution dramatically, and include the oldest known Homo erectus skull ("1470"), the first ever Homo erectus skeleton ("Turkana Boy"), the earliest evidence of bidpedalism (Australopithecus anamensis), and a potentially new genus of human ancestor, Kenyanthropus platyops.
		Under the auspices of the National Museums of Kenya, Meave Leakey assumed the leadership of the summer expeditions when Richard was chosen to head the Kenya Wildlife Force in the mid-1980's.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-10/acs-llc101003.php (730 words)

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		Between 1968 and 1989 he coordinated the NMK field expeditions to the eastern and western shores of Lake Turkana.
		Kamoya Kimeu, many important finds were made, including early stone age tools dating to around 1.9 million years old, evidence of early members of the genus Homo, including skulls of Homo habilis and Homo erectus, and remains of robust australopithecines A.
		The extraordinary discovery of the nearly complete 1.6 million year old skeleton of the “Nariokotome Boy” (or “Turkana Boy”), a Homo erectus youth, was undoubtedly the most important.
	www.leakey.com /richard_leakey.htm (444 words)

	Paleoanthropology Hominids Acheulean - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Turkana Boy is tall and slender, like modern humans from the same area, while the few limb bones found of Peking Man indicate a shorter, sturdier build.
		Study of the Turkana Boy skeleton indicates that H. ergaster may have been more efficient at walking than modern humans, whose skeletons have had to adapt to allow for the birth of larger-brained infants.
		The western forms have been given a new name: Homo ergaster (means "work man") and was first applied to a very old specimen from East Turkana in East Africa.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Paleoanthropology_Hominids_Acheulean (952 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		A replica of the "Turkana Boy" from northern Kenya, the most complete early hominid skeleton found to date, is featured in "Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins," a new permanent exhibition at the Peabody Museum.
		As the exhibition reveals, fossil evidence shows that the different kinds of humans that once lived in the past were very successful animals; some existed far longer than Homo sapiens has thus far, and at some periods more than one species of hominid lived at the same time, in the same place.
		Exhibition highlights include a full-size replica of the most complete early hominid skeleton ever found, the "Turkana Boy" (named for Lake Turkana in Kenya, near where the fossil was recovered).
	www.yale.edu /opa/v32.n23/story2.html (631 words)

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