k Homo habilis skull Homo habilis skull from Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated to 1.8 million years old. Homo habilis had a larger brain, a shorter jaw and smaller chewing muscles, compared with its australopithecine relatives. A team led by palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains between 1960 and 1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania these fossils were speculated to be a new species, and called Homo habilis handy man, because they suspected that it was this slightly largerbrained early human that made the thousands of stone tools also found at Olduvai Gorge. Editorial Stock Photo - Afloimages
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Homo habilis skull Homo habilis skull from Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated to 1.8 million years old. Homo habilis had a larger brain, a shorter jaw and smaller chewing muscles, compared with its australopithecine relatives. A team led by palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains between 1960 and 1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania these fossils were speculated to be a new species, and called Homo habilis 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.
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Homo habilis skull from Koobi Fora, Kenya, dated to 1.8 million years old. Homo habilis had a larger brain, a shorter jaw and smaller chewing muscles, compared with its australopithecine relatives. A team led by palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains between 1960 and 1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania; these fossils were speculated to be a new species, and called Homo habilis ('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.

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