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HOMO HABILIS
“Taong marunong gumawa ng kung
anu-anong mga bagay” o “Man of
skills”
Nakatagpo ng mga kusilba sa
Tanzania, Silangang Aprika, sa
pagitan ng 1962 at 1964.
Fossils
A juvenile male
partial skeleton,
1.75 million years
old.
Fossils
An adult female
cranium, 1.8
million years old.
Fossils
An adult cranium,
1.9 million years
old
Fossils
A partial
adult
skeleton,
1.8 million
years old
Silangang Aprika
Anyo
Ang H. habilis ay maiksi ang taas at may
hindi pantay na mahahabang mga bisig
kung ihahambing sa makabagong mga tao;
subalit hindi gaanong nakaungos ang
mukha nito kung ihahambing sa mga
australopitesino na iniisip na mga ninuno
nito. May kapasidad na pangkraneo na
bahagyang mas kakaunti kaysa kalahati ng
sukat ng makabagong mga tao. Sa kabila
ng morpolohiya ng katawan na parang sa
bakulaw.
Bato
Ang hugis ng kagamitáng bató ng
‘Habilis’ ay tinawag na Oldowan ng
unang Panahón ng Bató (Paleolithic,
Old Stone Age). Lubháng magaspáng
(primitive) ang
mga panghiwà (cutters) kung
ihahambíng sa gamit ng mga
sumunód na tao, subalit pinaka-
maunlád at pinaka-mabisà nuóng
panahón ng ‘Habilis.’
Paranthropus boisei
Paranthropus boisei
(originally called Zinjanthropus
boisei and then Australopithecus
boisei until recently) was an early
hominin and described as the largest
of the Paranthropus species. It lived
from about 2.6 until about 1.2 million
years ago during the Pliocene and
Pleistocene epochs in Eastern Africa
First discovered by anthropologist
Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, the well-
preserved cranium (nicknamed
"Nutcracker Man") was dated to 1.75
million years old and had
characteristics distinctive of the
robust australopithecines.
Mary and her husband Louis Leakey
classified the find asZinjanthropus
boisei: "Zinj" for the medieval East
African region of Zanj, "anthropus"
meaning ape or ape-human, and
"boisei" for Charles Boise (the
anthropologists team’s funder at the
time)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Primates
Family:Hominidae
Genus:Paranthropus
Species:P. boisei
Binomial name
†Paranthropus boisei
(Mary Leakey,
1959)synonyms
Zinjanthropus bosei
(Louis Leakey, 1959)