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Homo rudolfensis
Homo rudolfensis
Bradshaw Foundation Origins Archive
 
Homo rudolfensis was a species of the genus Homo, existing 1.9 million years ago, that is known only through a handful of representative fossils, the first of which was discovered in 1972 at Lake Turkana in Kenya by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Meave and Richard Leakey. In 2012 Meave Leakey discovered further fossils, consisting of a face and two jawbones [Leakey 2012].
HOMO RUDOLFENSIS
HOMO RUDOLFENSIS
Homo rudolfensis Kenya Africa
Genus: Homo
Species: Homo rudolfensis
Time Period: 1.9 million years ago
Characteristics: Brow Ridge, Broad Face
Fossil Evidence: Fossils, Lake Turkana,
Kenya, Africa

HOMO RUDOLFENSIS

 
Homo habilis
Homo rudolfensis
Homo rudolfensis was contemporary with Homo habilis, but it is not yet known if it was ancestral to the later species of Homo. The two different species may well have interacted.
 
The specimen Skull 1470, upon construction, is ape-like in appearance.