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  2. Homo habilis - Wikipedia

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    H. habilis manufactured the Oldowan stone-tool industry and mainly used tools in butchering. Early Homo, compared to australopithecines, are generally thought to have consumed high quantities of meat and, in the case of H. habilis, scavenged meat.

  3. List of human evolution fossils - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Homo habilis is the oldest species given the designation Homo, by Leakey et al. in 1964. H. habilis is intermediate between Australopithecus afarensis and H. erectus, and there have been suggestions to re-classify it within genus Australopithecus, as Australopithecus habilis. LD 350-1 is now considered the earliest known specimen of the genus ...

  5. Oldowan - Wikipedia

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    Currently the artifacts found are classified as Oldowan or KBS Oldowan dated from 1.9–1.7 Ma, Karari (or "advanced Oldowan") dated to 1.6–1.4 Ma, and some early Acheulean at the end of the Karari. Over 200 hominins have been found, including Australopithecus and Homo.

  6. Dmanisi hominins - Wikipedia

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    The researchers found that the Dmanisi hominins "cannot unequivocally be referred either to H. habilis or to H. erectus" and that there, in regards to early Homo, was a "continuum of forms"; Skull 5 appears to share many primitive features with H. habilis whereas Skull 1, with the largest brain, is more similar to African H. ergaster/H. erectus ...

  7. Ledi-Geraru - Wikipedia

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    The site is known for its early stone tools, dated about 2.6 million years old. [2] A hominin mandible was found in 2013, known as LD 350-1 and dated 2.8 million years old, which may qualify as a very early specimen of the genus Homo .

  8. Bones found in Arizona are identified as remains of Michigan ...

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    But on Nov. 11, 2009, a construction worker in Arizona working to widen Highway 93 found what appeared to be a bone. Workers soon found other bones, concluded they were human and notified National ...

  9. Evolution of human intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Stone tools such as flakes and cores used by Homo habilis for cracking bones to extract marrow, known as the Oldowan culture, make up the oldest major category of tools from about 2.5 and 1.6 million years ago. The development of stone tool technology suggests that our ancestors had the ability to hit cores with precision, taking into account ...