what are homo habilis
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Year of Discovery: 1960
History of Discovery:
A team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains of a unique early human between 1960 and 1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. The type speciman, OH 7, was found by Jonathan Leakey, so was nicknamed "Jonny's child". 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 Napier declared these fossils a new species, and called them Homo habilis (meaning 'handy man'), because they suspected that it was this slightly larger-brained early human that made the thousands of stone tools also found at Olduvai Gorge.
Height: average 3 ft 4 in - 4 ft 5 in (100 - 135 cm)
Weight: average 70 lbs (32 kg)
We don’t know everything about our early ancestors—but we keep learning more! Paleoanthropologists are constantly in the field, excavating new areas, using groundbreaking technology, and continually filling in some of the gaps about our understanding of human evolution.
Answer:
(1) Homo habilis is described as Handy man. his fossils were obtained from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, Africa.
(2) He existed in late Pliocene or early Pleistocene about 2.5 to 1.4 million years ago.
(3) He was lighty built.
(4) Fossil of lower jaw was obtained which; showed that his dentition was more like modern man with small molars.
(5) He walked erect. His cranial capacity was 640 to 800 cc.
(6) He did not eat meat and made stone tools.