Ẹ wo àmì-ọ̀rọ̀ fún Homo ergaster

{{Taxobox
| name = ''Homo ergaster''
| fossil_range = [[Pleistocene]]
| image = Homo ergaster.jpg
| image_width = 230px
| image_caption = Skull KNM-ER 3733 discovered by Bernard Ngeneo in 1975 (Kenya)
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| classis = [[Mammal]]ia
| ordo = [[Primates]]
| familia = [[Hominid]]ae
| genus = ''[[Homo (genus)|Homo]]''
| species = '''''H. ergaster'''''
| binomial = †''Homo ergaster''
| binomial_authority = [[Colin Groves|Groves]] and [[Vratislav Mazák|Mazák]], 1975
}}

'''''Homo ergaster'''''  is an extinct [[chronospecies]] of ''[[Homo]]'' that lived in eastern and southern Africa during the early [[Pleistocene epoch|Pleistocene]], about 2.5- 1.7 million years ago.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hazarika|first=Manji|title=''Homo erectus/ergaster'' and Out of Africa: Recent Developments in Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology|date=16–30 June 2007}}</ref>
There is still disagreement on the subject of the classification, ancestry, and progeny of ''H. ergaster'', but it is now widely accepted to be the direct ancestor of later hominids such as ''[[Homo heidelbergensis]]'', ''[[Homo sapiens]]'', and ''[[Homo neanderthalensis]]'' rather than Asian ''[[Homo erectus]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|author=G. Philip Rightmire|title=Human Evolution in the Middle Pleistocene: The Role of ''Homo heidelbergensis''|year=1998|journal=Evolutionary Anthropology}}</ref> It is one of the earliest members of the genus ''[[Homo]]'', possibly descended from, or sharing a common ancestor with, ''[[Homo habilis]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya | author = F. Spoor, M. G. Leakey, P. N. Gathogo, F. H. Brown, S. C. Antón, I. McDougall, C. Kiarie, F. K. Manthi & L. N. Leakey | journal = Nature | issue = 448 | pages = 688–691 | date = 9 August 2007 | doi = 10.1038/nature05986 | volume = 448 | pmid = 17687323}}</ref>


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