Homo habilis skull bones. These parietal (cranial) bones and mandible (jaw bone) were found in Olduvai Gorge,Tanzania in 1960. The specimen is called OH 7 and is estimated to be 1.75 million years old. H. habilis is thought to have lived approximiately 2-1.6 million years ago,and had a brain size just less than half that of modern humans. The name Homo habilis means 'handy man',adopted because the species used primitive stone tools | |
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