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  2. Homo habilis - Wikipedia

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    The discovery of the 1.8 Ma Georgian Dmanisi skulls in the early 2000s, which exhibit several similarities with early Homo, has led to suggestions that all contemporary groups of early Homo in Africa, including H. habilis and H. rudolfensis, are the same species and should be assigned to H. erectus.

  3. OH 7 - Wikipedia

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    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. The remains are dated to approximately 1.75 million years, and consist of fragmented parts of a lower mandible (which still holds ...

  4. KNM-ER 1813 - Wikipedia

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    KNM ER 1813 is a skull of the species Homo habilis.It was discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya by Kamoya Kimeu in 1973, and is estimated to be 1.9 million years old.. Its characteristics include an overall smaller size than other Homo habilis finds, but with a fully adult and typical H. habilis morphology.

  5. Human taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    The genus Homo has been taken to originate some two million years ago, since the discovery of stone tools in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in the 1960s. Homo habilis (Leakey et al., 1964) would be the first "human" species (member of genus Homo) by definition, its type specimen being the OH 7 fossils.

  6. Swartkrans - Wikipedia

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    Fossils discovered in the limestone of Swartkrans include Homo ergaster (a variety of Homo erectus), Paranthropus and Homo habilis. The oldest deposits present at the site are believed to be between 1.9 and 2.1 million years old. [3] Noted paleontologist Robert Broom was a frequent digger.

  7. Newly discovered fossils shed light on the origins of curious ...

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    The hobbit, along with the subsequent discovery of two other small-bodied and small-brained hominins who lived relatively recently — Homo naledi in South Africa and Homo luzonensis in the ...

  8. New theory provides insight on Indonesian 'hobbits' - AOL

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    Nicknamed 'hobbit' for its stature, the species was thought up until recently to be a descendant of Homo erectus. New theory provides insight on Indonesian 'hobbits' Skip to main content

  9. Early expansions of hominins out of Africa - Wikipedia

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    A phylogenetic analysis published in 2017 suggests that H. floresiensis was descended from a species (presumably Australopithecine) ancestral to Homo habilis, making it a "sister species" either to H. habilis or to a minimally habilis-erectus-ergaster-sapiens clade, and its line is older than H. erectus itself.