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Homo habilis

Characteristics

A team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains during the time frame of 1960-1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania; these fossils were speculated to be a new species, and called Homo habilis , because they suspected that it was this slightly larger-brained early human that made the thousands of stone tools also found at Olduvai Gorge.

Homo habilis is a specie of the tribe Hominini, during the Gelasian and early Calabrian stages of the Pleistocene period, which lived between roughly 2.8 and 1.5 million years ago

  • More rounded skull.
  • swordlike incisor.
  • Large and thick enamel molars.
  • Absence of diastema.
  • Face less prognathous than the australopithecines.
  • Incisor larger than the australopithecines.
  • Short face.
  • Curved fingers and toes: it is indicating that still used the trees.
  • Bipedal in females causes a reduction in the pelvis which results in an advance of deliveries.
  • Greater cranial capacity
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