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Only about 40% of Turkana Boy’s skeleton is complete, yet a collection page describes a child who stood around 160 centimetres tall when he died at about eight or nine. That combination makes the find feel less like an abstract fossil and more like the remains of a particular young person. The page says his long legs relative to his arms, narrow pelvis and torso shape point to a Homo ergaster body adapted to walking upright.
The page also points to the thoracic vertebrae as evidence suggesting a neurological capacity for controlled breathing. It describes that capacity as a prerequisite for complex speech, though that does not establish whether this child could speak. What features of those vertebrae do researchers examine to assess controlled breathing?
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