te usskeleton. It  nine and tructure,” says tattersall, in a  precedent. turkana boy was “very empically one of us.”

    Also found at Lake turkana by Kimeu s t clue t us eresting and complext. t of an agonizing condition called aminosis A, old us first of all t us ing meat.

    Even more surprising  t of gro sign of tenderness inion.

    It  us skulls contained (or, in tained) a Broca’s area, a region of tal lobe of ted h speech.

    C ure. Alan alker t y to enable speec ted about as wellas modern cably Richey could speak.

    For a time, it appears, us   seems to y.

    taken literally, suggests t some members of t about time as, or even slig Africa. tists to suggest t per in Africa at all, but in Asia—o say miraculous, as no possible precursor species side Africa. to appear, as it aneously. And anyill o explain  to Africa so quickly.

    ternative explanations for us managedto turn up in Asia so soon after its first appearance in Africa. First, a lot of plus-or-minusinggoes into ting of early ual age of t timates or t ty of time for African erects to find to Asia. It is also entirely possible t oldererectus bones a discovery in Africa. In addition, tes could be ogether.

    Nos. Some auties don’t believe t turkana finds are us at all. t alturkana skeletons ensive, all otus fossils are inconclusively fragmentary. As tattersall and JeffreyScz note in Extinct  of turkana skeleton “couldn’t be compared ed to it because ts  knourkanaskeletons, tus and  t