When scientists discover a fossil skull, they compare it to skulls that have already been identified as particular early human species. Now you get to be the scientist!
This fossil has similarities to early African Homo erectus, sometimes known as Homo ergaster. Yet it shows other similarities to Homo habilis, also known to occur from eastern to southern Africa.
Image Credit: James Di Loreto, & Donald H. Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution
