KNM ER 1805 is the catalog number given to several pieces of a fossilized skull of the species ''

Homo habilis ''Homo habilis'' ( 'handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.4 million years ago to 1.65 million years ago ( mya). Upon species description in 1964, ''H. habilis'' was highly ...

''. It was discovered in

Koobi Fora Koobi Fora refers primarily to a region around Koobi Fora Ridge, located on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in the territory of the nomadic Gabbra people. According to the National Museums of Kenya, the name comes from the Gabbra language ...

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

in 1974. The designation indicates specimen 1805, collected from the east shore of Lake Rudolf (now

Lake Turkana Lake Turkana () is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. By volume it is the world ...

) for the Kenya National Museums. It is estimated to be 1.74 million years old. Due to its incompleteness, it has been the subject of debate as to its classification. It was originally classified as ''

Homo erectus ''Homo erectus'' ( ) is an extinction, extinct species of Homo, archaic human from the Pleistocene, spanning nearly 2 million years. It is the first human species to evolve a humanlike body plan and human gait, gait, to early expansions of h ...

'' but due to the projection of the face and the shape of the cranium, it is now generally classified as ''H. habilis''. The brain capacity is about 582 cm³.

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* Homo habilis fossils {{Paleo-hominin-stub

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