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trace the evolution of homo habilis

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Answered by Krishnagupta11
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Homo habilis was a species of early humans, who lived between roughly 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. They are commonly known as the first species to use carved stone tools. These tools are usually found with their fossils. (Fossils of earlier tool users have been found since.)

Homo habilis, in the tribe Hominini, lived during the Gelasian and early Calabrianstages of the Pleistocene geological epoch. The type (original) specimen is OH 7, discovered in 1960 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, associated with the Oldowan lithic industry; the fossils were identified as a separate species of Homo with the proposed binomial name of H. habilis ("handy man") in 1964.In its appearance and morphology, H. habilis is the least similar to modern humans of all species in the genus Homo (except the equally controversial H. rudolfensis), and its classification as Homo has been the subject of controversial debate since its first proposal in the 1960s

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