
KNM-ER 1472 is the identifying "serial number" given to a thigh bone that is identical to one of modern man. That this bone was found in the same stratum as
Homo habilis fossils, but a few kilometers away from them, led to the false interpretation that
H. habilis was a two-legged creature. The fossil OH 62, discovered in 1987, showed that contrary to what had been thought
H. habilis did not walk on two legs. KNM-ER 1472 was thus included under the classification
Homo erectus. (
See Homo erectus.)