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Fossil cast of Turkana Boy at the National History Museum London.
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Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus (Homo ergaster) youth who lived at c. 1.5 to 1.6 million years ago. This specimen is the most complete early human skeleton ever found.
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Although only 8 years old at time of death, the boy would have appeared as an adolescent due to a more precocious growth-spurt of this species.
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