Kenyanthropus

High school (ages 12+)
Human Body

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1. What is the scientific name?Kenyanthropus platyops
2. What is the location?Lomekwi site, Turkana Basin, Kenya
3. Where did Kenyanthropus live?It lived in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, near a big lake called Lake Turkana and close to volcanic rocks that helped make stone tools.
4. Why does Kenyanthropus have a flat face?Its flat face is a special feature that shows it was different from other early humans, like Australopithecus, and may have helped it eat certain foods.

Hominin: A taxonomic tribe (Hominini) of the subfamily Homininae of the family Hominidae, native to Africa and Eurasia. It includes modern humans, extinct human species, and all our intermediate evolutionary ancestors.
Middle Pliocene: A geological epoch spanning from approximately 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago, a critical period for hominin evolution.
Niche Partitioning: The process by which competing species use the environment differently in a way that helps them to coexist.
Lomekwian Industry: The earliest known archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture, predating the Oldowan industry.