BBC - Earth - The remote lake that tells the story of humanity's birth - 0 views
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It was a skeleton of a young boy, discovered at Lake Turkana in the deserts of northern Kenya. He died when he was about eight years old and his bones sank into the sediments of the Lake, where they were preserved for 1.5 million years. He was, and is, the most complete early-human fossil ever discovered
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Together they span four million years of human evolution.
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1.9 million-year-old Homo rudolfensis, known as "skull 1470".
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