1 of 6

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

Homo Habilis

Published on Nov 18, 2015

No Description

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WHERE DID IT EXIST?

  • It existed between about 1.5 and 2.3 million years ago

CHARACTERISTICS.

  • Brain, it averaged 610 cubic centimeters in size.
  • Skull, it brain case had become more fuller and more rounder due to exspansion of brain.
  • Jaw, jaw was smaller than these found in the earlier australopithecines.
  • Face, its face was large and flat.
  • Height average was 3ft and 4 inches

WHEN WAS IT DISCOVERED?

  • It was first discovered in 1960

WHAT DID IT EAT?

  • They ate fruit, berries, roots, and meat.

WHAT DOES THE NAME MEAN?

  • The term homohabillis means handy man

WHAT DOES THE HOMO SAPIEN HAVE THAT THE HOMO HABILLIS DOES NOT?

  • They evolved abilities to survive the changes that the earth had ir