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ShareHomo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2.5 million to 1.8 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene.
The definition of this species is credited to both Mary and Louis Leakey, who found fossils in Tanzania, East Africa, between 1962 and 1964.
Homo habilis is arguably the first species of the Homo genus to appear.
For more information about the topic Homo habilis, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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