Question

How skull size and jaws were associated with tool making in early man?

Answer 1

The discovery of Homo habilis began in 1959 when two teeth were unearthed at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team led by Louis and Mary Leakey. ... They were officially announced as new species in 1964 but their placement into the human genus Homo was controversial. ... These proportions

Answer 2

Answer:

• Homo habilis is an archaic species of Stone Age human which lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago (mya), during the Early Pleistocene.The species was first discovered by anthropologists Mary and Louis Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania in 1955, associated with the Oldowan stone tool industry.

• . habilis is considered to be intermediate between Australopithecus afarensis and H. erectus. It has been suggested reclassifying the species as Australopithecus habilis, as one of the main arguments for its classification into Homo was the now outdated idea that it was the earliest human ancestor to use stone tools. H. habilis likely used tools for butchering meat which it scavenged from more fearsome carnivores.

• H. habilis coexisted with other early hominins, such as the robust Paranthropus and Homo erectus.