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Homo habilis (lit. 'handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3 million years ago to 1.65 million ...
Like the other fossils of Homo habilis, OH 24 also manifests the slightly small teeth set in a U-shaped arch. Being one of the oldest fossils of Homo habilis , OH 24 has been used to settle many disputes about splitting some of the early Homo fossils that have been found into Homo rudolfensis and Homo habilis , or lumping them together into one ...
Homo habilis: 1949 Swartkrans, South Africa: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History OH 24 (Twiggy) [39] 1.80 Homo habilis: 1968 Tanzania: Peter Nzube OH 8 [40] 1.80 Homo habilis: 1960 Olduvai, Tanzania: D2700 (Dmanisi Skull 3) 1.81±0.40 [41] Homo erectus: 2001 Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze and Abesalom Vekua D3444 (Dmanisi Skull 4 ...
OH 7 (Olduvai Hominid № 7), also nicknamed "Johnny's Child", [1] is the type specimen of Homo habilis.The fossils were discovered on November 4, 1960 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by Jonathan and Mary Leakey.
Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
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Homo ergaster – Extinct species or subspecies of archaic human; Homo rudolfensis – Extinct hominin from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa; Homo habilis – Archaic human species from 2.8 to 1.65 mya; LD 350-1 – Earliest known specimen of the genus Homo; Makapansgat pebble – Ancient stone found in South Africa