Shares features with australopithecines as well as H. erectus . Taken from the old name for Lake Turkana. 1470 is an extremely large specimen otherwise similar in many ways to H. habilis . This term is used to indicate that a specimen has been excavated from the place where it was originally deposited and has not eroded out or moved from of its original position. The class to which all mammals including primates belong.
Mammals have hair and mammary glands and give birth to live young.
The epoch between 24 and 5 million years ago, preceding the Pliocene. In paleoanthropology it is the study of the surfaces of bones. The epoch between 2 million and 10,000 years ago following the Pliocene. The epoch between the Miocene and Pleistocene, dating 5 to 2 million years ago. In Africa the Great Rift Valley runs from the Red Sea to Mozambique.