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the scientist which discovered this species named it homo habilis​

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Because this early human had a combination of features different from those seen in Australopithecus, Louis Leakey, South African scientist Philip Tobias, and British scientist John Napierdeclared these fossils a new species, and called them Homo habilis (meaning 'handy man'), because they suspected that it was this .

Answer 2

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because this early human had a combination of features different from those seen in Australopithecus, Louis Leakey, South African scientists Philip Tobias, and British scientist John Napier declared these fossils a news spices and call them homo habilis ( meaning 'handy man'), because they suspected that it was this

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