Sentences with phrase «habilis specimens»

The rudolfensis specimens have large brains in conjunction with megadont postcanines, and without postcranial evidence it is unknown whether these features are due to a larger body size than contemporary habilis specimens.

Although the fossil record for the first members of the Homo genus is poor, the earliest definitive H. habilis specimen is about 2.4 million years old.

One habilis specimen is less than 550 cc; about half a dozen others range from about 590 cc to 750 + cc.

The teeth are larger than any habilis specimen, and seem to show definite Homo — like patterns.

Not exact matches

But the Ledi - Geraru specimen is not likely to be a member of H. habilis itself, Spoor says.

The type specimen of H. habilis, for example, includes a 1.8 - million - year - old lower jaw called OH 7 from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

The specimen probably represents a member of the earliest species of the genus Homo, H. habilis (or H. modjokertensis), also known in Africa from Olduvai, Omo, Sterkfontein and Swartkrans.

Every species has, or should have, a type specimen, so only if the type specimen of Homo habilis (which is Olduvai Hominid 7, or OH7 for short) is found to belong to some other species does the name Homo habilis lapse into synonymy.

It is a specimen of Homo habilis, with a cranial capacity of 673cc.

Scott claims that «The first «homo habilis» specimen ever discovered was actually zinjanthropus...».

The specimen is now thought to date to approximately 1.8 myr (Leakey et al. may have been more willing to attribute the specimen to habilis had they known the real antiquity of the specimen from the beginning).

The simplest way to describe the general features is to describe specimens that are generally considered habilis by most people, and list their relevant traits.

This is a poorly preserved and fragmentary specimen of a 15 — 16 year old female habilis, dating to a little younger than 1.66 myr.