This episode helped me understand how important the finding of Turkana Boy was, the 1st earliest Homo-erectus skeleton ever to be discovered. The finding of this skeleton lets us know besides having a smaller brain, wider hips, and a small bit of longer arms homo erectus are very much like us. The main difference though is their growth rate represented a chimpanzee rather than a human. This allowed me to stop for a moment and reflect on my thinking and perception on what I have learned in anthropology so far and made me realize the major change from homo erectus from us was brain size and like the video stated what allowed this increase of brain size was longer juvenile periods. The part of this episode that really stuck out to me where
