Homo habilis skull

Detachable in 2 parts Quality and durability of the pieces guarantee extended use with your students. The scientific rigor of the model meets the standards required for museum collections. The fragments found and reconstructed are differentiated to better understand the paleontologist's approach. Site and date of discovery: Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania, East Africa) 1968. A decisive step in the evolution of the human race. The fossil describes a representative of the oldest specimen of the Homo genus: Homo habilis. Homo habilis walked upright on two legs and had a large brain of 610 to 750 cm3 (not measurable). It was already using tools. Age: approximately 1.85 million years, Pliocene.