G. Philip Rightmire
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LOCATION: Binghamton, NY, United States
Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton.
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Homo habilis, extinct species of human, the most ancient representative of the human genus, Homo. Homo habilis inhabited parts of sub-Saharan Africa from roughly 2.4 to 1.5 million years ago (mya). In 1959 and 1960 the first fossils were discovered at Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania. This…
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