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Bookmark or Share- Homo habilis - The Smithsonian's Human Origins ProgramWhile scientists used to think that H. habilis was the ancestor of Homo erectus, recent discoveries in 2000 of a relatively late 1.44 million-year-old Homo habilis (KNM-ER 42703) and a relatively early 1.55 million-year-old H. erectus (KNM-ER 42700) from the same area of northern Kenya (Ileret, Lake Turkana) challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, this evidence - along with other fossils - demonstrate that they co-existed in Eastern Africa ...
- Homo habilis - New World EncyclopediaHomo habilis (IPA /ˈhoʊmoʊ ˈhæbələs/ ), meaning "handy man," or "skillful person," is the oldest known species of the genus Homo, to which human beings belong. Homo habilis lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.5 million years ago, appearing first in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene. It is considered to have diverged from the Australopithecines .
- Homo Habilis: Early Toolmakers - The Human JourneyWith larger brains, the beginnings of speech, and tools to aid meat eating, Homo habilis and its pre-human branches left the first traces of cultural behavior. Human beings evolved in Africa from a variety of hominid species over a period of a several million years. Between 2.5 and 1.8 million years ago, the first species called Homo appeared. The discovery of its remains by the Leakeys at the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, marked the first time that Africa was recognized as the birthplace of ...
- How Did Humans Evolve? - HISTORYScientists still don’t know exactly when or how the first humans evolved, but they’ve identified a few of the oldest ones. One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who...
- Homo habilis - Body structure | BritannicaSome limb bones from Olduvai and Koobi Fora have been grouped tentatively with H. habilis on the basis of general anatomic similarity to later humans. These fossils, however, are not associated with any teeth or skulls, and it is probably not appropriate to use them as the basis for describing early Homo. One individual for which body parts are more fully represented is OH 62.
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