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2-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Offers Clearest Look Yet at Homo habilis


A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is giving paleoanthropologists their most complete picture yet of Homo habilis -- one of the earliest members of the human genus -- revealing just how physically distinct it was from later Homo species.

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