Genus Homo Linnæus. Species habilis sp. nov. (Note: The specific name is taken from the Latin, meaning ‘able, handy, mentally skilful, vigorous’. We are indebted to Prof. Raymond Dart for the suggestion that habilis would be a suitable name for the new species.) […]While it is possible that Zinjanthropus and Homo habilis both made stone tools, it is probable that the latter was the more advanced tool maker.
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Homo habilisHomo habilis (lat.)
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An extinct hominid that is the earliest and most primitive known member of the human genus Homo, living in Africa between about 2.3 and 1.4 million years ago. (OED 2012)
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Leakey, L.S.B., Tobias, P.V. & Napier, J.R. (1964). A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai gorge. Nature 202, 7-9: 8; 9.