Homo habilis

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin homo (“man”) + habilis (“handy”).

Proper noun

Homo habilis m

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Hominidae – extinct species of human, sometimes classified as Australopithecus habilis or Homo rudolfensis.
    • 2016 June 9, James Griffiths, “This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small”, in CNN‎[1] (in English):
      Discoverer Mike Morwood proposed that it was a shrunken Homo erectus, the same species that eventually evolved to become us; others suggested the Hobbits were descended from smaller, more primitive early humans such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus.

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