The "Nariokotome Boy" Fossil from East Africa Looks Very Different

question 28

Multiple Choice

The "Nariokotome boy" fossil from East Africa looks very different from Homo erectus species found on Java, in Indonesia. This leads some scholars to suggest that

• A) the Nariokotome fossil is more recent than the Javanese fossils.
• B) the Javanese fossils are not really hominins at all.
• C) they must have belonged to separate species.
• D) it is the skulls that matter most, and the skulls are from the same species.

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