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KNM ER 992 is a 1.5 million years old fossilized lower jaw discovered by Richard Leakey in 1971 at Lake Turkana, Kenya. The mandible was considered by C. Groves and V. Mazak to be the holotype specimen for Homo ergaster.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ Groves, C. P.; Mazak, V. (1975). "An Approach to the Taxonomy of the Hominidae: Gracile Villafranchian Hominids of Africa". Casopis Pro Mineralogii a Geologii. 20: 225–247.
  2. ^ Tattersall (2015). "10 Homo ergaster and Its Contemporaries". In Henke, W.; Tattersall, I. (eds.). Handbook of Paleoanthropology. Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 1634–1653.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Heslip, Steven (2001). "Homo ergaster". Michigan State University. (broken link)

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