Species Profile
Homo habilis
Handy man
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Homo habilis lived about 2.4–1.4 million years ago.
Fossils were found in East Africa.
It marks the beginning of the genus Homo.
Size & Structure
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Short stature
02
Partly human-like face
03
Larger brain than Australopithecus
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Less projecting jaw
Homo habilis — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Enlarged cerebrum (about 600–700 cc)
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double, complete
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Omnivorous hunter-gatherer
Used stone tools
Adapted to savanna habitats
Economic Importance
Evidence of early tool-making
Important in human evolution studies
Paleoanthropological significance