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What is Homo Habilis?

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What is Homo Habilis?

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We are Homo Sapiens Sapiens, but hundreds of thousands of years ago, before we evolved into this form, our distant ancestors were called Homo Habilis. See http://www.becominghuman.org/ and http://www.talkorigins.

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A species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to at least 1.6 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.

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Homo habilis is a now extinct species in the Homo genus, which has perhaps most famously produced the modern human, Homo sapiens. From the fossil record, it appears that Homo habilis lived around 1.5 million years ago in Africa, during the Pleistocene era. Homo habilis also wasn’t alone; these early hominids coexisted with other bipedal primates, and there is some debate about the exact role of Homo habilis in human evolution. A modern human would probably have difficulty relating to these early hominids. Homo habilis looked markedly different from modern humans, with longer arms, a short stature, and a protruding face, although Homo habilis was one of the first hominid species to have a more flattened face like that of modern humans. These hominids had about half the brain capacity of Homo sapiens, although they used their brains for some incredible accomplishments, including the development of complex societies and the use of fine tools. Credit for the discovery of Homo habilisgoes t

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