Question

Name this hominin: dates to 3.5 mya; from about the same time as Au. afarensis; discovered by Meave Leakey and her colleagues at Lomekwi, on the western side of Kenya’s Lake Turkana; inhabited mainly woodlands; had an unusually flat face.

Answer 1

Kenyanthropus platyops

Step-by-step explanation:

Kenyanthropus platyops is characterized by its flat-faced, small-brained, and bipedal, living about 3.5 million years ago in Kenya.

According to the discovery, Kenyanthropus inhabited Africa at the same time as Lucy’s species Australopithecus afarensis (Au), and could represent a closer branch to modern humans than Lucy’s on the evolutionary tree.

This hominid was discovered in Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya around 1999, by a research team led by scientist Meave Leakey, who found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old early human that has a mixture of features unseen in other early human fossils. After the discovery, Leakey and her team named the genus and species, Kenyanthropus platyops, or “flat-faced human from Kenya.”

Hence, the right answer is KENYANTHROPUS PLATYOPS.