Bromage points out that the first reconstruction of ER 1470 was erroneous by giving it a flat face, but - ``... recent studies of anatomical relationships show that in life the face must have jutted out considerably, creating an ape - like aspect, rather like the faces of Australopithecus ``.72 This finding is one of a number which suggest that the species Homo
habilis never existed.
Not exact matches
Australopithecus robustus: was not «disqualified» by the discovery of Homo
habilis, because it had
never been «qualified» in the first place.
Zinjanthropus: it was indeed displaced by Homo
habilis within a few years of its discovery, but even before then it had
never been considered to be a human ancestor by anyone but Louis Leakey.
Homo
habilis, one of the most important species in human evolution,
never even gets mentioned.